Investors are rushing into stocks Monday as surprise increases in pending home sales and construction spending offered the latest signs that the economy is stabilizing.
These are difficult times for the mutual fund industry, which makes consideration of publicly traded fund companies as investments particularly nerve-racking.
As a result of shifting views of high-net-worth and ultrahigh-net-worth investors, financial advisers will have to re-evaluate business practices, including fees, portfolios and investment policies, according to wealth managers and industry observers.
A day before he and his hedge-fund consulting firm were stung by the Securities and Exchange Commission with $815,000 in fines and penalties, a major figure in the hedge fund world started his own effort to change hedge fund audits.
Mutual fund groups groups must adjust to a new, potentially expensive distribution landscape, according to members of a round-table panel of fund executives, financial advisers and industry experts.
As Congress starts to take up health care reform, a group representing health insurance agents is voicing its dissent over President Obama's call for universal health insurance.
The day of reckoning has come for the financial services industry.
The two largest organizations of financial planners are looking at ways to give members discounts on several kinds of insurance.
American International Group Inc. is considering closing down parts of its mortgage insurance unit following a failure to offload it, Bloomberg reported.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC said today that it plans to close 19 of its current 135 exchange traded funds.
Mutual fund assets grew by 2.3% in March, according to a report released by the Investment Company Institute.
The monthly auctions of 30-year bonds follows Treasury's decision just three months ago to double the frequency of the auctions from four times annually to eight.
A grand jury has indicted a Florida hedge fund manager who disappeared for two weeks before surrendering to face criminal charges.
AdvisorShares Investments LLC appears to have moved a step closer to launching its first actively managed exchange traded fund.
In order to keep the individual annuity market alive amid economic turmoil, insurance companies will need to readjust their product risk, distribution and cost structures for the product, according to a report from Conning Research & Consulting.
Impaired intangible assets will continue to pressure insurance companies as earnings continue to erode, according to a report from Moody’s Investors Service in New York.
Managed-care company Aetna Inc. said today its first-quarter profit rose slightly due to membership gains and premium increases, even though the company saw higher-than-expected medical costs.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained a court order freezing the assets of a Connecticut hedge fund manager who allegedly bilked investors of $30 million by inflating the size of two of his funds.
