For decades, "The Oaks" was the oceanside playground of the Barrons and the Bancrofts, heirs to the Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal fortunes. Today, the 20,000-square-foot mansion with 45 rooms and surrounding properties went on sale for $55 million.
The U.S. brokerage industry's top regulator, responding to yesterday's market plunge, said Wall Street needs to be more vigilant in halting stock bids during periods of cascading share prices
A monthly commentary written by Bill Gross, managing director and co-chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC.
With the S&P 500 up 80% since March 2009 and the specter of a correction looming, financial advisers are scrambling to keep clients calm and to make key adjustments to their portfolios.
The Charles Schwab Corp. has reversed course and will allow advisers to hold in custody additional alternative investments.
Peter Muller, who founded and leads Morgan Stanley's quantitative investment unit, bested 104 players last week to win the annual Wall Street Poker Night.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is closing nine of its wealth management branches in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, the company confirmed today.
Our “horse” required more and more money every year in order to feed asset appreciation, its eventual securitization and the borrowing that both promoted.
Barclays Wealth, the $241 billion wealth management unit of Barclays Bank PLC, has snapped up a team of advisers from Neuberger Berman LLC, the company announced Wednesday.
Jeff Russell will join MSSB in the firm's Irvine, Calif. office
For advisers thirsty for new opportunities, the case for water investing is crystal clear.
An insurance industry effort to make summary prospectuses permissible for variable annuities is being received warmly by broker-dealers, despite doubts that the complex products can be described adequately in abbreviated form.
The insurer's sales and deposits rose 8% to a record $15.2 billion last year. The firm also reported record net income of $670 million, compared with a $1 billion net loss in 2008.
The securities industry has been sounding warnings about the hiked liability it would face under a universal fiduciary duty. But if investor claims continue to be arbitrated, such a rule may actually cost firms little
Stocks are mostly falling after another slump in the euro prolonged concerns about Europe's economy.
The affluent are feeling as confident now about the economy and their investments as they did in December 2007
Despite a deafening silence from advisers on long-term-care planning, most consumers say they want input from a financial professional on LTC
Further complicating matters, the LTC business requires large amounts of capital, which puts added pressure on carriers that issue the policies
Clients may not be knocking down the doors to participate in the long-term-care-insurance program created last week by the passage of health care reform, but advisers are optimistic the program's existence will spur more discussion around the benefits of LTC planning.
