Investment adviser Richard Feight admits he's not very good at brewing beer, but he's found that the hobby helped him build business connections and network with clients.
The publicity surrounding the debacle of Anna Nicole Smith’s estate highlights the importance of careful estate planning, according to financial advisers, but the errors she made are quite common and are easily remedied.
We all know that Merrill Lynch and Bank of America were a shotgun marriage. Bernanke and Paulson were holding the proverbial shotgun to Mr. Lewis and Mr. Thain's heads and, poof, we have a humongous financial institution.
Congress Asset Management Co. in Boston announced the acquisition of Prelude Asset Management LLC in a deal that creates a $6.4 billion money management shop.
A third of all moves in February came at indies.
In a mixed sign for the U.S. economy, 59% of independent investment advisers surveyed by The Charles Schwab Corp. in late January said they expect consumer savings to increase during the next six months.
Two plaintiffs claimed that brokerages were misled about NASD's merger with the NYSE's regulatory unit. Apparently, Judge Jed Rakoff wasn't moved by their arguments.
Upper-income investors are taking advantage of a change in the tax law and rushing to convert their traditional individual retirement accounts or old 401(k) plans into Roth IRAs.
Taken together, the Icelandic and Greek financial crises can be seen as the second stage of the larger global banking crisis.
State insurance regulators Monday voted in favor of a proposal that would allow carriers to terminate an annuity living or death benefit if a client sold the contract over the secondary market.
E*Trade Financial Corp., which took a black eye from losses on its subprime mortgage holdings, is getting back on track by focusing on its roots as an online brokerage, an analyst said Monday.
Last week, Securities America Inc. was tagged with a lawsuit from Massachusetts regulators alleging that the firm misled investors who were sold high-risk private placements.
Annual volume from life settlements transactions is expected to reach $13 billion in face value over the next three years, according to research from Aite Group LLC.
Sotheby's sold $134 million worth of art last night in a sign that investors are looking for a hard asset that is also a solid hedge against inflation
The Fed and the Bank of Japan opted to keep interest rates at historic lows. Not surprisingly, stock investors around the globe gave thanks.
Soon-to-be-premiered futures exchanges in Chicago and New York let investors wager on whether movies will be blockbusters or box-office death. Popcorn is extra.
Workers are feeling confident about being able to pay for their basic expenses in retirement. But they're far from secure as more of them say they have hardly anything in savings and investments.
