Rising medical costs and longer live expectencies are putting the squeeze on long-term-care insurance providers. This week, another carrier -- Guardian Life -- said it's exiting the LTC biz.
Wall Street giants Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs dropped their bets against Treasuries. But bond king Bill Gross is sticking to his guns.
When Christopher C. Davis talks about money management, the one-time theology student sounds as if he is discussing a calling, employing words that reflect cultural choices
With the expiration of the second round of quantitative easing scheduled for next month, investors shouldn't assume that the fixed-income markets will respond as they did at the expiration of the first round
Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist at Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co., said the Federal Reserve's attempt to boost the economy could push U.S. stocks to a level where they will be “dangerously overpriced.”
Templeton fund manager plans to plow another $250M into Turkish equities
I'm sure a number of you have been keenly following the World Cup matches as they play out across South Africa.
Still, June expiration has many worried; institutions to the rescue?
It's been a busy few days for Ameriprise Financial. Earlier this week, the firm, along with subsidiary Securities America, lined up an agreement with lawyers representing investors who got burned in Reg D offerings. And today, it appears the company is on the verge of acquiring Grail -- and moving into the actively-managed ETF space.
U.S. life carriers had a fairly small appetite for mergers and acquisitions in 2010, with much of the activity taking place in AIG's shedding of its foreign life insurance subsidiaries.
Legendary investor called his shot in 2009 -- and was right; sees more gains ahead for BRICs, frontier markets
Milev says rise in price of crude boosting country to No. 1 choice among emerging European markets
Ex-Charles Schwab Corp. investment company manager Randall Merk agreed to pay a $150,000 civil fine to resolve a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors in its YieldPlus fund.
At a time when litigation has threatened the financial viability of several securities firms, executives at independent broker-dealers, as well as the more than 110,000 or so independent-contractor registered reps, often are woefully underinformed about their errors-and-omissions insurance, according to industry observers
Putnam Investments has launched an online tool that enables its financial adviser clients to evaluate more than 10,000 mutual funds using up to 60 different criteria. Next month, advisers also will be able to compare up to 1,100 exchange-traded funds using the Fund-Visualizer tool
Smaller life insurers — battered by the recession but ready to get back into the annuity business — have begun to outsource the manufacturing of fixed indexed annuities to marketing groups
Dale Harvey of Poplar Forest Partners prefers cheap and out-of-favor stocks
