Many pension managers are allotting more assets to long-term investment-grade corporate bonds, reported Standish Mellon Asset Management Co. LLC of Boston today.
The pool of money available to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff's massive pyramid scam is getting bigger.
The International Monetary Fund has said Russia's GDP could drop as much as 6% this year — the most pessimistic outlook so far.
Financial advisers who handle retirement plans have noted that plan sponsors are now very much aware of the performance of target date funds. But sponsors don't really understand the reason for the performance, according to 76% of advisers polled by my firm.
Lubos Pastor may upend the world of equity investing. In his recent academic paper “Are stocks really less volatile in the long run?” the professor at the college's Booth School of Business argues that stocks are riskier than generally perceived.
The Obama administration's strategy to ad-dress the economic crisis may be making the problem worse.
Fidelity Investments had the most internally managed active-domestic-equity assets for U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets clients last year.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled against a group of investors who tried to muscle a state guaranty association into paying about $1 million for the group's failed viatical investments.
Congress is likely to begin a review of the financial oversight system next month, with an eye toward revamping regulation. Banking, of course, will take center stage, especially now that the federal government has a direct stake in many of the nation's largest banks.
Mutual funds that invest in technology stocks are producing great returns — a sign that the market in general is improving, some say — and investors are starting to respond.
Although carriers' acceptance into the TARP program has led to share price gains and cautious approval from ratings agencies, some financial advisers are still keeping the insurers' products and securities at arm's length.
Wealth managers and tax attorneys are advising wealthy clients who may need to minimize gift and estate tax payments to consider taking advantage of a popular tax-planning tool while they still can.
Keeping track of rogue brokers is a tricky business, particularly when they leave or are booted from the confines of the securities industry, but keep peddling financial products.
Financial advisers are at risk of getting caught in a classic “bond bear trap” — reaching for yield in a low-interest-rate environment, then getting hammered when rates ultimately rise.
Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, D-Pa., today reintroduced the Insurance Information Act of 2009, which would establish a federal Office of Insurance Information.
In what advisers say is a flight to safety and returns, municipal bond funds attracted more than $20 billion in new cash from January through May 13, according to the Washington-based Investment Company Institute.
A bill to defer taxation on dividends that are reinvested in mutual funds has received support from the Investment Company Institute.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor will hold a joint hearing June 18 on the subject of target date funds.
Signaling greater stability in the credit markets, most of the major fund complexes offering Treasury money market mutial funds have discontinued their participation in the federal guarantee program on those funds.
A state senator wants Florida's insurance commissioner to resign, calling him "duplicitous and untrustworty" in a letter to Gov. Charlie Crist.
