Regulator aims to impose fiduciary standard, compensation limits in bid to eliminate conflicts of interest
Asset managers telling clients to pounce with BRICs and others down 35% from 15-year average
Analysts sees nearly 40% return by end of 2012; soft landing in China the key
Latest currency ETF from fund firm
Survey reveals real interest in purchasing exchange-traded funds and real ignorance about exchange-traded funds
Financial advisers a bit lost as exchange-traded funds evolve; more changes to come, too
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Unofficial proposals to create government debt backed by the entire 17-member eurozone would produce a massive bond market, similar in size, liquidity and quality to the $7.3 trillion U.S. Treasury market
The global economic crisis is leading to a possible “developed economy” recession in Europe and the United States that may be hard to alleviate, according to Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC's Bill Gross
Firms set to offer active funds promise not to use derivatives
Hurricane Irene's estimated cost to insurers fell to about $2.6 billion in the U.S. as the storm lost strength en route to New York.
Veteran insurance agent Paul A. Mattus has filed suit against The Allstate Corp., claiming that the carrier muscled him out of his book of business and passed it on to a newer, younger agent
U.S. life insurers had a fairly small appetite for mergers and acquisitions last year, with much of the activity encompassed in AIG's shedding of its foreign life insurance subsidiaries
Most think the average add on is about $6; it's not
Asset manager issues proposal to reform exchange-traded-fund industry
Custodian floats four exchange-traded funds; nixed all 17 country funds in 2009
Asset manager buying a boat load on junk bonds; yield ahead
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has yanked all six of its proposed rules covering municipal advisers today, triggered by worries about the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed definition of a municipal adviser.
