The Vanguard Group Inc. last week filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer seven bond index exchange traded funds in what some industry experts think will be a direct challenge to iShares, the dominant fixed-income ETF provider.
More banks are expected to fail by the end of the year, but analysts still expect their stocks to continue to gain value.
Three college students whose parents died are vying for a $5,000 scholarship from the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education.
The Department of the Treasury last Tuesday sent to Capitol Hill the final piece of its financial regulatory reform legislation, a 115-page bill aimed at reforming regulation of over-the-counter derivatives.
A number of financial trends have made emerging economies the high-growth option for international investing.
After gaining an average of 13.9% last year, managed-futures funds have come back down to earth this year as their managers sit with cash and look for signs of a discernable market trend.
An American Bar Association task force studying mutual funds' use of derivatives will likely recommend measures to ensure that investors and fund directors are better-informed about the risks associated with the use of the complex financial instruments.
The Vanguard Group Inc. has restricted investments in its Primecap Core Fund to high-net-worth clients.
Although many big variable annuity writers are fading from the market, New York Life Insurance Co. has decided to jump in with a new product as a strategy to gain favor with independent broker-dealers and registered investment advisers.
New York Gov. David A. Paterson has named James J. Wrynn the state's superintendent of insurance.
Tremont Group Holdings Inc., which lost more than $3 billion in the Bernard Madoff scam, will auction off its remaining hedge fund assets in an attempt to pay its investors, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Hartford (Conn.) Financial Services Group Inc. has named Dan Guilbert chief actuary of Hartford Life Insurance Co.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. made another round of job cuts this week in its Connecticut and Massachusetts offices, a spokesman said.
The Blackstone Group LP plans to sell bonds for the first time, but offered no details on how much or when.
Foreclosure filings were up 32 percent from the same month last year, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. More than 360,000 households, or one in every 355 homes, received a foreclosure-related notice.
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday filed an administrative proceeding against Axa Advisors LLC for failing to supervise a former registered representative who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in January 2008.
Moody's Investors Service today said it would keep its A3 long-term issuer rating on American International Group Inc. after the insurance company reported its first quarterly profit in nearly two years.
Although first-half revenue may be down at National Planning Holdings Inc., the independent broker-dealer network has been actively adding to its ranks of registered representatives.
Jackson National Life Insurance Co., buoyed by robust sales of annuities, saw its first-half sales and deposits reach $6.1 billion, up from $5.94 billion in the first six months of 2008.
Atticus Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund shop, is returning $3 billion to investors as the company founder opts out of the hedge fund business, according to a letter sent to shareholders yesterday.
