Bloomberg's Susan Antilla offers her opinion on just how much (or little) progress women have made in the financial services industry over the last two decades
Unfortunately, many individuals are getting confused.
The following is an edited transcript of an InvestmentNews.com webcast held in New York on March 9.
Merrill Lynch won dismissal of an investors' class-action lawsuit over auction-rate securities, at least the seventh such victory since the market collapsed in February 2008.
According to Wednesday's edition of the Financial Times, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is gearing up to hire 2,000 rookie brokers. Adding these new minions to Sallie Krawcheck's 15,000-person retail army prompts a few questions.
Police searched the offices of the financial adviser to France's richest woman Friday as part of a growing scandal that includes allegations she gave cash illegally to President Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign.
Tells Congressional panel that the push to land bank fees -- along with lax government oversight and breakdown in communications -- resulted in abuses
As more Branch Managers pick up and move to another firm, more and more advisers are quoting the classic 1981 song by The Clash while considering whether they should follow their old boss to greener pastures.
A former broker for Morgan Stanley and Banc of America Securities LLC will plead guilty today to receiving kickbacks for his role in a stock-loan scheme that operated from March 2004 to December 2005, court records show.
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VI International said to be down 61% -- not suprising, given the fund was raised at the peak of the property boom
Morgan Keegan fallout? The securities regulator warns B-Ds that bonds in funds cannot be considered 'rated' unless a third-party actually does the rating
Brokerage and investment manager Charles Schwab Corp. gave its CEO Walter Bettinger a pay package valued at $10 million last year, according to a regulatory filing made Tuesday.
Randy Abeles from RSM McGladrey takes all of advisers' tax questions this week.
Tomczyk says discount brokerage still has no plan to buy E*Trade; the company could authorize a dividend at some point, however.
Evercore Partners Inc. said Wednesday that it has purchased Neuberger Berman's Private Funds Placement Group as it looks to expand its advisory services.
The former Paine Webber chairman, who went all-out in failed bid for AIG's B-Ds, is said to have considerable interest in three of the ING Advisors Network broker-dealers
European services giant ING Groep NV said Monday it will split itself in two, spinning off its insurance arm to simplify its business and issuing €7.5 billion ($11.3 billion) in new shares to repay state bailout money.
ING Investment Management could go up for sale as part of parent ING Group's divestiture of its insurance business, according to ING spokesman Raymond Vermeulen.
Former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker Steven Mandala, who was charged with stealing $780,000 from the firm, partly to buy a Ferrari, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and identity theft, his lawyer said.
