American International Group Inc. said Wednesday that it completed the sale of its retail bank and credit card operations in Thailand for about $45 million in proceeds.
The chief executive of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. today called for new standards on how Wall Street executives are compensated and new regulation of large hedge funds and private-equity funds.
The Options Industry Council has announced a new effort to serve the educational needs of financial advisers by launching a dedicated adviser web portal and the addition of Eric S. Cott as director of financial adviser education.
Rep. Robert Andrews said that despite more than $2 trillion in losses over the last year, the 401(k) system is not broken — it just needs some minor, and rather immediate, adjustments to empower individual investors,
Active portfolio managers experienced a surge of confidence last week as the Index of Manager Sentiment recorded a record seven-day spike, pushing the index to its highest level in nearly 10 months.
The Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Exchange Traded Fund (VSS), which seeks to track the performance of the FTSE Global Small-Cap ex-US Index, began trading today, The Vanguard Group Inc. of Malvern, Pa., announced.
In the latest iteration of a plan that’s been steadily gaining support from both Democrats and Republicans on the Hill, legislation was introduced yesterday that would create a federal insurance regulator.
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since late 1983, as a wide range of employers eliminated a net total of 663,000 jobs.
The stock market is finishing the day with a modest advance, logging its fourth straight week of gains.
