News

Displaying 43098 results
It's high time to adopt auto IRAs
RIAS JUL 26, 2011
It's high time to adopt auto IRAs

More than ever, employees of small companies face the prospect of a bleak retirement

By MFXFeeder
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 26, 2011
Ketchum on exams, VAs and fiduciary standard

By mlanche
IRA ALERT JUL 26, 2011
Broken window: Rollover horror stories

When clients withdraw money from an individual retirement account or employer retirement plan and want to move those funds to another retirement account, they must roll over those funds within 60 days of the date that they received the distribution from the plan or IRA

By Ed Slott
Automatic for the people: Fund firms back digital statements as default for retirement plans
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 26, 2011
Automatic for the people: Fund firms back digital statements as default for retirement plans

Plan sponsors should be able to send retirement plan info to employees digitally without getting permission, industry groups argue

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Fund firms on 401(k) fee disclosure deadline: More time, please
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 26, 2011
Fund firms on 401(k) fee disclosure deadline: More time, please

DOL's latest start date — Jan. 1 — still too soon, industry group contends

By Darla Mercado
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 26, 2011
Phyllis Borzi: Protecting the Everyman's benefits

Phyllis Borzi has come a long way since her days as a high school English teacher.

By Liz Skinner
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 26, 2011
Securities America settles with state in conditional resolution of Reg D mess

Putting an end to a bitter dispute over the sale of failed private placements, Securities America Inc. has agreed to make whole 63 Massachusetts clients who bought $5 million of failed notes issued by Medical Capital Holdings Inc.

By Bruce Kelly
UBS' Bob McCann: We're not getting hitched to Wells Fargo
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 26, 2011
UBS' Bob McCann: We're not getting hitched to Wells Fargo

It's not happening, says Robert McCann, head of the bank's U.S. wealth management operation. In fact, McCann flat out denies rampant speculation that a deal is in the works to sell his unit to Wells Fargo. According to McCann, he hasn't even spoken with anyone at the supposed buyer.

By John Goff
College marketing an education in how to generate cash, buzz
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 26, 2011
College marketing an education in how to generate cash, buzz

Top universities are said to be soliciting applicants who have little chance of getting admitted. The reason? Critics say it's to generate both cash and buzz.

By John Goff
WIREHOUSES JUL 26, 2011
Wirehouses saw little turnover in the past year

Financial adviser turnover at the four wirehouses — Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UBS AG and Wells Fargo & Co. — dropped to near-historic lows over the past 12 months

By Andrew Osterland
Jeremy Grantham: One of the 'greatest inflection points' in economic history
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 26, 2011
Jeremy Grantham: One of the 'greatest inflection points' in economic history

The legendary investor warns that the world is now a more constrained place -- a place where prices of raw materials will rise and shortages will be commonplace

By Jeremy Grantham
WIREHOUSES JUL 26, 2011
McCann do: UBS wealth management sees huge jump in profit

Unit reports nearly eight-fold increase in pretax earnings; rich clients finally returning in force

By John Goff
RIAS JUL 25, 2011
E*Ject? Another CEO jettisoned at E*Trade

Frieberg the third chief executive to exit the brokerage in four years; 'appropriate time'

By John Goff
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 25, 2011
Body of brokerage founder recovered in Lake Ontario

Griffiths missing for five days; helped launch GMP Capital

By John Goff
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 25, 2011
Pimco, BlackRock get some satisfaction with BofA settlement

Dust-up over soured mortgage trusts settled, as bank agrees to paybondholders $8.5B

By John Goff
Goldman, Morgan Stanley bullish on commodities
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 25, 2011
Goldman, Morgan Stanley bullish on commodities

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley increased their forecasts for crude-oil prices by more than 20%, signaling a bullish outlook for commodities.

By Doug Cubberley
Finra's Ketchum to B-Ds: Structured products need strict policing
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 25, 2011
Finra's Ketchum to B-Ds: Structured products need strict policing

Finra president Richard Ketchum says brokerages must make certain reps understand how complex financial instruments work -- before hawking them to clients.

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 25, 2011
Finra, Nuveen agree to $3M settlement over marketing of auction-rate preferred securities

Regulator claims marketing material produced by B-D was misleading; settlement reached

By Jessica Toonkel
Big rise in Finra lobbying $$$
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 25, 2011
Big rise in Finra lobbying $$$

Industry regulator shelled out more than $300K in first quarter; entire financial industry spending big bucks bending ears

By Dan Jamieson
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 25, 2011
Brokers charge Finra with becoming OATS mill

Brokers are up in arms about what they say is an increasing number of fines for innocent trade-reporting errors.

By Dan Jamieson