The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has created the Office of the Whistleblower to expedite the review of “high-risk” tips.
The Phoenix Cos. Inc. said that it overstated its 2008 losses by $46 million as a result of an error in accounting for income taxes.
Advent Software Inc., a software and services provider to investment managers, has launched a new version of Tamale RMS, which centralizes data.
Captrust Financial Advisors of Raleigh, N.C., has lured Mark A. Davis, a 17-year-veteran of the retirement industry, to anchor the firm’s first West Coast office.
Aviva PLC, Europe’s biggest provider of life insurance products, posted a loss of $995 million for 2008, down from a profit of $2.98 billion in 2007.
Fidelity Investments filed yesterday with the SEC to launch a series of target date funds that will be available to certain 401(k) plan customers at below retail cost.
Corporate giving is on the chopping block this year, according to a survey of 158 companies conducted by The Conference Board.
Fidelity Investments said its intermediary businesses — those that serve broker-dealers, banks, insurers, registered investment advisers and other institutional clients — set records last year.
Two major forces are behind the dramatic growth in popularity of exchange traded funds: the wide-spread adoption of fee-based advice and the prolonged 10-year bear market’s effect of destroying the “mutual fund manager” myth.