Software and IT services giant SunGard Data Systems Inc. has partnered with four third-party administrators including: APA Benefits Inc., CMC Interactive LLC, Ingham Retirement Group, and KTRADE to provide<a href="http://sungard.com/financialsystems/productofferings/wmexchgtradfundssolution.aspx" target=”_blank”> SunGard's Exchange Traded Funds solution</a> launched in July in conjunction with iShares.
A prominent wirehouse rep and his Hawaii-based team — <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/FREE/909299980&ht=choy>who rather suddenly left</a> Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in September — have formed a new advisory firm.
The majority of investors who work with advisers are not aware that income limits associated with the conversion of a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA will be lifted in January, according to a survey conducted by Fidelity Investments.
The United States faces greater systemic risk today than it did a year ago, according to economist Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and professor at Columbia University's graduate business school.
As the third quarter ends, the performance of many mutual funds confirms that investors have regained their taste for risk amid more signs of an economic recovery.
The nation's economic recovery has just begun and "we still have work to do," a senior Treasury official told Congress on Thursday, the strongest signal yet that the administration is prepared to extend its $700 billion bank bailout fund.
Regulators and legislators clashed with members of the life settlements industry at a congressional hearing today that focused on the risks and merits of life settlements securitization.
A former broker at Prudential Securities Inc. charged with fraudulently trading mutual funds for millions of dollars in commissions has been sentenced to two months in a halfway house.