Touchstone Investments is looking to adopt funds to fill out its product lineup.
Economist, lawyer and deadpan comedian Ben Stein doesn't find much humor in the way the federal government is handling the economic crisis.
There's plenty of money-making opportunities right here in the USA, despite the sluggish economy, according to some industry observers.
The love affair financial advisers have enjoyed with American Funds has cooled.
In whatever way Congress and the Obama administration eventually change the national health care system, there is one segment of the health care market where reform has already begun and is gaining momentum.
A California life insurance agent will face a preliminary hearing Friday as he contends with grand-theft and identity theft charges.
There have already been more than three times the number of target date fund liquidations so far this year than there were in all of 2008. Moreover, experts predict that trend to increase as smaller fund managers are finding it nearly impossible to gain traction in the market.
With the economy in recovery mode, Tim Palmer, a senior portfolio manager with First American Funds, has zeroed in on the financial sector's high-grade bonds.
A German man who founded the hedge fund group K1 was arrested by police amid an investigation into possible fraud that may total some euro200 million ($295.7 million), prosecutors said Thursday.
ING is looking to sell its $92.4 billion global real estate business and BlackRock Inc. has emerged as one of the potential buyers, according to industry sources
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has voted to regulate for the first time hedge funds and other large pools of capital.
Just weeks after launching its first commodities exchange-traded fund, a unit of Jefferies & Co. Inc. today launched two similar ETFs: one focused on agriculture and another on industrial metals.
The tiny Philadelphia Fund (PHILX), which traces its roots to 1923 and is one of the oldest mutual funds, will be merged out of existence next month.
New opportunities for insurers and asset managers are on the horizon as they seek a way to put a guaranteed wrapper around target date funds, according to an insurance company executive.
Life insurer Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said Monday that its chief financial officer, Lizabeth Zlatkus, will be named its chief risk officer and the company will begin looking externally for a new CFO.
Mutual funds would be subject to tougher disclosure rules than other financial products if legislation currently being debated in Congress is passed.
New York Life Insurance Co. is preparing to launch a no-load version of its immediate annuity to target the fee-based-adviser market, according to Matthew Grove, its vice president.
After leading Chicago's unsuccessful effort to land the Olympics, Patrick Ryan is jumping into something he knows a lot better than the Byzantine politics of the International Olympics Committee — the insurance business.
Real estate money managers are seeing the equity in their property investments begin to dissolve.
