The world's richest clients often come with “impossible demands,” push margins down and cause internal conflict with investment banking colleagues, said the vice chairman of Barclays Plc's wealth management unit.
Customers defrauded by Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme deserve repayment of as much as $500,000 each, even if they took out more than they put into his investment business, a lawyer argued today to an appeals court.
The court-appointed trustee seeking to recover billions of dollars lost by jailed financier Bernard Madoff sued three entities Thursday to get back more than $30 million that he said the Madoff family had invested, mostly in oil and gas properties and technology companies.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. sold stakes in Home Depot Inc. and CarMax Inc. and cut its holding of Nike Inc. as the billionaire replaced a retiring investment manager and built the company's cash holdings.
It is likely that nothing will be known about the tax rate for 2011 until after the November elections. History shows us that if everyone knows that taxes are going up, taxpayers will employ strategies to accelerate income into this year.
Proxy proposals seeking to shed more light on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. have emerged as a hot-button issue in the self-regulator's election for seven open board seats.
An unfair regulatory system is hurting small brokerage firms and needs to be changed, according to candidates running for seats on the board of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.
Rhonda Breard, Washington state adviser – and local celebrity – accused of stealing $8M from clients
B-Ds' account statements come under scrutiny; further guidance from regulator possible
Morgan Stanley, owner of the world's largest brokerage, reported a third-quarter loss of 7 cents a share after writing down a stake in Revel Entertainment LLC, an Atlantic City casino project.
Black Diamond Performance Reporting today is expected to announce the availability of a new application specifically designed for the Apple Inc.'s iPad.
Industry group cobbling together best practices for private placements; sponsor-supplied reports not sufficient
A little-known provision within the Dodd-Frank law gives the Securities and Exchange Commission the power to remove mandatory-arbitration language from client-broker agreements, which could expose broker-dealers to huge costs, according to observers
Dozens of plaintiffs suing brokerage firms this month have seen a veritable gusher of multimillion-dollar awards, leaving some plaintiff's attorneys anticipating a continued stream of such arbitration rulings
Montana's commissioner of securities and insurance has sued Securities America Inc. over the sale of failed private placements, making it the second state to target the broker-dealer for selling the risky investments.
High anxiety abounds as economy, markets stall; detailing the risks of risk-aversion
Proposed change to ERISA expands fiduciary duty to include brokers who advise pension plans
The Republican takeover of the House predicted by key pundits next month would have a major impact on legislation related to retirement plans and the firms that manage their money — but only measures with broad bipartisan support are likely to become law.
Defined-contribution managers bounced back a bit by year-end 2009 from the morose markets of 2008 as assets under management rose 19.7%
Chalk up another hard-earned lesson from the financial crisis: Investors in limited partnerships, the structure of choice for most alternative investments, discovered that giving up liquidity in exchange for higher returns wasn't such a good idea after all.
