Even though independence is losing its stigma as a sign of failure among wirehouse brokers, they continue to move at only a moderate pace to independent broker-dealers and registered investment advisory firms, a panel of experts said last week.
States that operate Section 529 college savings plans are showing an increased interest in hiring third-party investment consultants to monitor their programs in the wake of the stock market downturn and the poor performance of OppenheimerFunds Inc.'s Core Bond Fund.
Tensions have been building for months among financial advisers affiliated with Mutual Service Corp., a subsidiary broker-dealer of LPL Investment Holdings Inc., as they wonder about the future of their firm.
Broker defections, a loss of market share and spinoffs could be on the horizon for insurance-affiliated broker-dealers if the Obama administration's proposed regulatory reforms force them to act as fiduciaries.
Record levels of stock issuance by public companies over the past several weeks could come back to haunt the market and hurt investors, at least in the near term.
Despite the widely held view that indexing is the safest way to invest, not everyone is a proponent.
At the beginning of the year, after it missed cues for seemingly everything from the massive Madoff Ponzi scheme to the credit crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission was being written off as all but dead.
The Charles Schwab Corp. is dipping into its deep pockets to help independent advisers capture business from full-service brokers.
As life and annuity insurers emerge battered from 2008 and the first quarter this year, there appear to be some hints of recovery amid the wreckage, according to a report from A.M. Best Co.
Investors are nervous about the savings rate outpacing spending.
Equity markets in the United States will wind up posting double-digit percentage gains this year, according to Robert Doll, the vice chairman and chief investment officer of New York-based BlackRock Inc.
The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc. yesterday said that it has closed its deal to purchase Federal Trust Corp. for $10 million.
President Obama’s proposed financial regulations could tighten restrictions on insurance companies and pressure the companies’ ratings, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.
In a move that could create a price war among custodians of registered investment advisers’ assets, Charles Schwab Corp. said today it will waive commissions on electronic equity trades and reimburse account-transfer fees to new clients of independent investment advisers whose assets are held in custody at the San Francisco-based firm.
The Texas Department of Insurance yesterday said that it will try to implement provisions of legislation vetoed last week by Gov. Rick Perry that was designed to protect annuity customers.
A Wayland, Mass., money manager settled charges Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
An unexpected rise in jobless claims is causing investors to sell again.
Billionaire Warren Buffett says the United States has a good team leading the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve as it fights what he's called an economic war.
Life insurance companies are struggling to emerge from the shadows of 2008’s losses, but in the long run they will prosper, according to a study from Conning.
