Broker-dealer firms are worried about increased audit costs in the wake of the Bernard Madoff scandal.
Private-equity investors appear to be leading the pack of likely buyers for the three broker-dealers in the AIG Advisor Group, which houses 6,571 representatives, according to a number of industry sources.
Enrollment in prepaid-college-tuition programs has soared since the financial crisis began last fall.
Mary Jo Hudson, director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, yesterday adopted three accounting rule changes that would grant insurers based there some reserve relief.
The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc. limped through the fourth quarter of 2008, racking up a net loss of $806 million.
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. is close to reaching a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the sale of auction rate securities
Dividends of companies in the S&P 500 stock index this year are expected to see their sharpest annual decline since World War II, New York-based S&P said today.
The United States shed 598,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate rose to 7.6% from 7.2%.
Wachovia Securities reached a settlement with the SEC in which it agreed to pay investors more than $7 billion to buy back failed auction rate securities.
New claims for jobless benefits rose to a 26-year high last week, signaling that the U.S. economy remains stuck in a deep recession.
New orders for manufactured goods fell 3.9% in December, marking the fifth consecutive month of declines.
After forecasting dismal 2008 results, Swiss Reinsurance Group has announced that it will receive a capital infusion from billionaire Warren E. Buffett.
A survey of 506 registered investment advisers finds half their new assets are coming from wirehouses and other broker-dealers.
Will Fuller has joined Lincoln Financial Distributors of Philadelphia as president and chief executive, effective Feb. 13.
Lazard, an investment bank, said profit for its fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, had fallen by about half to $61.2 million, or 50 cents per diluted share.
The Department of Labor today delayed implementation of a rule that would have allowed most investment advisers to give specific advice to 401(k) participants.
Aviva announced that full-year 2008 life insurance and pension sales hit a company record of 11.9 billion pounds ($17.2 billion) in the United Kingdom.
ING Groep has sold off its 70% stake in its Canadian property/casualty unit, ING Canada Inc., in an attempt to bulk up its balance sheets.
Three former brokers, who were first with UBS Financial Services Inc. and then with Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., have been barred from working in New Jersey.
