CHICAGO — Wall Street’s eagerness to develop and sell exotic new products to the nation’s growing ranks of retirees is worrying regulators.
NEW YORK — Advisers hoping to convince clients that they need a long-term financial plan should do their best to appeal to the prefrontal cortex of their clients’ brains — and steer clear of the limbic system altogether.
NEW YORK — The needs of aging clients and their aging parents are compelling financial advisers to become more knowledgeable about elder-care issues.
NEW YORK — The Financial Services Institute Inc. is gearing up for a fracas with regulators over the highly contentious issue of 12(b)-1 fees, an embedded annual charge in almost all mutual funds.
Bank of America Corp. is counting on a new advisory business to help retain ultrahigh-net-worth clients once its $3.3 billion deal to acquire U.S. Trust Corp. from San Francisco-based Charles Schwab Corp. closes next month.
CHICAGO — Life cycle fever seems to be spreading from 401(k) plans to variable annuities. At ING Variable Annuities, for instance, assets in LifeStyle portfolios — which were introduced as ING-managed subaccounts in mid-2004 — reached $8 billion at the end of April, up from more than $4 billion at the end of 2005.
NEW YORK — A key roadblock to health savings account acceptance is that many people know little or nothing about HSAs and their required high-deductible health insurance plans, according to industry experts.
It's the prefrontal cortex, stupid. That's the part of the client's brain that can scuttle an adviser's best-laid plans.
The largest shareholder of Citigroup has expressed confidence in chief executive Charles Prince and does not want to see a breakup of the company.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has created a commission to help New York City hold onto and expand its status as a world financial capital.
Fidelity Investments will move its Japanese equity-trading desk to Hong Kong from Tokyo, published reports said.
Global Alpha, Goldman Sachs’ flagship hedge fund, fell 3.4% during the first four months of this year.
London-based HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, has created a $100 million partnership to study the impacts of climate change.
OppenheimerFunds Inc. Wednesday said Bill Wilby will retire from the New York-based company June 30 after 16 years of service.
New York Life Retirement Plan Services is taking a page from retailers like Amazon.com Inc. in order to better understand and predict employee retirement planning behavior.
The Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. today expanded its European investment banking division with a series of new appointments.
New York Life Insurance Co. has announced promotions in its general counsel department.
Jeff Raich, co-global head of mergers and acquisitions, is the latest high-ranking investment banker to leave UBS AG.
A group of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group has formally launched a $95.6 billion bid for ABN Amro Holding.
Inheriting a depleted recruiting staff, the new head of National Planning Corp. immediately will focus on rebuilding that team. Last Monday, Santa Monica, Calif.-based NPC said that Scott Romine was replacing M. Shawn Dreffein as its CEO.
