Two California men and the companies they ran were charged today with conducting an $80 million Ponzi scheme that targeted Korean-American investors with false promises of annual returns of up to 36% from foreign currency trading,
Separate efforts to sell the businesses and personal property of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff have been combined to speed the process and get more of the proceeds to those he cheated.
U.S. retirement assets were down 22% at the end of 2008, compared with yearend 2007, according to a report released yesterday by the Washington-based Investment Company Institute.
While the majority of small businesses do not think the economy will affect their ability to offer a 401(k) retirement plan, 44% said they may have to reduce or stop matching employee contributions, according to a survey released today by Nationwide Financial Services Inc. of Columbus, Ohio.
The difference in regulatory oversight for broker-dealers and investment advisers leaves consumers open to risks, Richard Ketchum, chief executive of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., said today.
The Obama administration’s consideration of a safety commission for financial products needs to be approached with great care, Richard Ketchum, chief executive of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., said today at NAVA’s annual legislative and regulatory conference.
Advisers are struggling to get clients — especially baby boomers — to think about funding long term care in the face of depleted investment portfolios.
On a recent trip to Singapore, my wife and I took a cable car ride between two islands.
In my last Fiduciary Corner column, I wrote about the significant benefits that would result if, as a result of regulatory reform, all who provide financial advice — including broker-dealer representatives — are held to the fiduciary standard of care established under current laws.
Financial advisers who cater to workers in the automotive industry are scrambling to prepare their clients for the onslaught of job losses that will follow General Motors Corp.'s filing for bankruptcy protection last week.
Opponents of the estate tax are preparing to fight a push in Congress to require that minority-held interests in private companies be valued the same as majority-held interests for estate tax purposes.
Finra may have given broker-dealers and registered representatives a reprieve of sorts last year as the amount in fines and enforcement actions it levied against firms plummeted.
Many financial decisions are made around the dinner table rather than a conference table, according to one financial planner and foodie who believes in presenting financial planning concepts in a more digestible way.
Independent registered representatives and their spouses soon could face unprecedented scrutiny into their personal finances.
All eyes are on Pershing LLC's new technology platform to see whether it will fulfill its promise to offer advisers full integration with third-party technology vendors.
PlanPlus has added Spanish-, Chinese- and French-language versions of its software, which before had been available only in English.
Two of the primary pillars of retirement security are not just on the ropes, but actually on life support.
The IRS is working on new rules that could require paid tax preparers to be licensed to improve tax compliance and reduce fraud, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman announced today.
Pershing LLC has launched NetX360 for advisers, after a two-year project to consolidate existing systems into a single technology.
If proposed cap-and-trade legislation aimed at restricting corporate carbon emissions is passed, advisers and investors will have to re-evaluate companies on an individual basis, as the real-money effects of this law would vary dramatically from firm to firm, according a new research report.
