JPMorgan Chase analyst Kenneth B. Worthington downgraded Merrill's stock to "neutral" from ''overweight.''
The clearing firm's B-Ds will provide consolidated performance reporting across all accounts.
In this newly created role, Gregg Mahalich will oversee Jackson’s wholesale efforts among regional firms.
Guy Carpenter and Co. is accused of conspiring with reinsurers to fix prices and eliminate competition.
ING Investment Management Americas will purchase wind energy credits for its domestic operations equal to all of its electricity needs in the hopes of becoming carbon neutral by the end of the year.
More than two years after the launch of the first variable annuity based on exchange traded funds, VA providers and financial advisers are still ap-proaching the product with caution.
My friend Jay figured he was in a win-win situation: He would get $80 from the Internal Revenue Service for participating in an online customer satisfaction survey. In his mind, he would get paid for telling the IRS exactly what he thought about it.
Under regulations governing the securities industry, it's not enough for firms merely to archive e-mails; they must be able to furnish them to regulators “promptly.”
The walls of Neal Simon's office at Highline Wealth Management LLC are lined with the images of people he and his wife photographed during their travels through China, Guatemala, India, Indonesia and Peru.
Financial advisers don't suffer from a lack of client data, but too many providers don't offer such data in a consolidated fashion, forcing advisers to find certain types of information on their own.
As a team of active asset managers, we don't want to own all of the stocks all of the time, to paraphrase P.T. Barnum.
Ken Clark, Barry Glassman, Gerry Strid and Arnerich Massena & Associates Inc. were named winners of the 2007 Community Leadership Awards, which were presented by the Invest in Others Charitable Foundation and <i>InvestmentNews</i>, late last month in New York.
The U.S. added 110,000 new jobs last month, following a significant upward revision for the two prior months.
BIS Insurance Services, a Sacramento, Calif. employee benefits insurance broker, will remain in its current location.
The European Central Bank will leave key interest rates unchanged in light of a favorable medium-term outlook for economic activity in the region.
Osman Semerci, former head of the fixed-income division, and Dale Lattanzio, former head of structured credit products, have left the firm.
Wall Street’s recent round of layoffs could ripple through the rest of New York City, impacting jobs and tax revenue.
The Charles Schwab Foundation pledged $1.25 million to Texas Tech University and the University of California at Irvine.
The 401(k) arena now demands specialized advisers, said Phil Chiricotti, president of the Center for Due Diligence.
TD Bank Financial Group of Toronto will acquire Commerce Bancorp Inc. for $8.5 billion in an effort to expand its presence in the United States.
