Stifel Financial Corp. said Monday it plans to buy back all auction rate securities held by its retail investors, who bought them prior to the collapse of the ARS market in February 2008.
Advisers need to familiarize themselves social networking websites, as younger individuals are poised to inherit a significant amount of wealth, said Microsoft exec Craig Saint Amour.
Scandals in the financial markets over the past several years are the result of enforcement failures and a lack of regulators with industry-specific knowledge, not a need for increased regulation.
When the equity markets began their dramatic slide in the second half of last year, advisers and their clients researched the investment offerings of Los Angeles-based American Funds more than any other mutual fund group.
Climate change continues to be important to investors, and they want to know what companies are doing to mitigate the impact and risks associated with global warming.
Investors who previously ignored socially conscious investments are eyeing them now, an official with the Calvert Social Investment Foundation said last week.
Since the market has devastated portfolios, many investors find themselves with substantial capital losses.
In what might come as a surprise to the organization's members, the head of the mutual fund industry's biggest trade group last week said that he supports the idea of requiring all financial advisers to act as fiduciaries.
A prominent group of registered investment advisers, angered by Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.'s recent decision to stop accepting custody of alternative investments, are threatening to move other assets from the San Francisco-based company.
Investors' voracious appetite for gold has started to skew valuations of the asset, leaving some advisers and money managers at odds over how best to use it in a portfolio.
