As world leaders at the Copenhagen summit moved to chart a global strategy on climate change, the U.S. Congress was readying itself to take up cap-and-trade legislation to reduce carbon emissions here at home.
The latest version of the tax credit for first-time homebuyers has two new features that may make the credit more widely available, which means more clients with Roth conversion income may be affected.
Broker-dealers that hold client assets for registered investment advisers are pointing their marketing and technology arrows at practice management.
If there is one word to describe Donald Robert Pitti, the financial planning pioneer who died Dec. 18 at the age of 80, it would be “enthusiasm.”
An investment adviser has been charged with defrauding investors in a scheme that used former National Football League players to promote offerings in an insurance company.
China's lavish bank lending spurred a recovery but also pumped up markets as speculators scooped up stocks and property and even dabbled in garlic, dried chilli peppers and luxury Pu'er tea.
A judge in Massachusetts throws the book at an adviser who swindled the heirs of gilded-age industrialist Frederick Ayer, Jr.
Advisers have a real opportunity to serve the needs of clients who are saving for retirement — especially women.
Stocks are falling in midday trading as a stronger dollar tugs on commodities prices.
Stock futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street Wednesday as a stronger dollar tugged on commodities prices.
A Boston-based investment firm has agreed to pay $1.3 million in restitution to Montana investors for a Ponzi scheme run by an independent broker in Kalispell.
Three ex-employees of Bernie Madoff -- including operations chief Daniel Bonventre (above) -- say they played no part in the fraudster's $65 billion scheme
Institutional investors are investing in timberland, trying to fill new inflation-hedging allocations.
Stocks are looking to extend their gains into a seventh straight day as investors anticipate positive readings on home prices and consumer confidence.
New accounting rules and underpriced universal life insurance are just a couple of the issues keeping Joseph M. Belth up at night.
Morgan Stanley elevated its chief financial officer to a new role as co-chief of investment banking and global securities trading Tuesday as part of a management shake-up ahead of James Gorman's assumption of the CEO role on Jan. 1.
Provisions in legislation aimed at “too-big-to-fail” financial firms will increase borrowing costs for large institutions — and will make it harder to get secured lending, according to financial industry officials.
Wells Fargo Investments LLC will return about $1.3 billion to investors who suffered losses in the auction-rate-securities market, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.
A Lubbock businessman pleaded guilty Thursday to two charges related to his bilking $50 million from investors in a Ponzi scheme.
