Legg Mason Inc.'s Bill Miller said he is sticking with his bets on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. because the fallout from the fraud accusations against the bank will probably be limited.
Former Credit Suisse Group AG broker Eric Butler, free while appealing his conviction for fraudulently selling subprime securities that cost investors more than $1.1 billion in losses, was ordered to begin serving his prison sentence.
The Department of Labor's unprecedented move to ask if 401(k) plan advice models should favor passively managed funds over actively managed ones has advisers alarmed that the choice of funds they can recommend to clients will be restricted.
The Geller Group LLC, a New York retirement plan administrator and registered investment adviser, has confirmed in internal memoranda that it is being investigated by the Labor Department.
The Labor Department is investigating Geller Group LLC for failing to disclose alleged ties to an accounting firm it recommended as an auditor, according to former employees and others close to the investigation.
The Labor Department is investigating Geller Group LLC, a retirement plan administrator and registered investment adviser, for failing to disclose alleged ties to an accounting firm it recommended as an auditor and for other possible violations, according to former employees and others close to the investigation.
Under the rule, if an investment adviser or certain employees of an advisory firm contribute to a politician with influence over hiring, they cannot be paid by the pension fund for two years.
Though it appears that regulatory oversight of equity-indexed annuities will remain with states — and not shift to the Securities and Exchange Commission — some insurers are nonetheless rolling out indexed-annuities that qualify as securities.
Standard of care takes center stage on Capitol Hill amid a flurry of offers, counteroffers, and counter-counteroffers. Right now, House-Senate negotiators appear to be locked in a stalemate.
BP shares sunk Thursday in London as U.S. politicians pressed the British oil company to halt its dividend payments and fork out greater compensation for American workers and companies devastated by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. is actively investigating broker-dealer underwriters of subprime securities, a Finra official said this morning at the regulator's national conference in Baltimore.
Business propositions that center on making money through investing is out of sync with the times.
Rational markets? Hardly. In reality, humans tend to have a narrow focus -- often missing the obvious
TCW Asset Management has given investors in its Special Mortgage Credits Fund I and II until Feb. 19 to decide whether to liquidate their investments.
As soon as he heard that 13-year-old Margaret Hurt was in danger of losing the horse she had been riding since becoming sick with leukemia two years ago, Preston Byers agreed to donate $6,000 to help her buy Hoochie.
Listed as a "monument to unparalleled success," the largest home for sale in the United States comes with plenty of space but no carpet, tiles or interior walls. It's up to the future buyer to finish it.
The erudite editor of Grant's Interest Rate Investor debunks Treasuries as risk-free investments, and makes a case for gold and cash.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon named longtime associate Heidi Miller to the new post of president of J.P. Morgan International as part of a management shuffle to groom an eventual successor.
A small provision buried in both the House and Senate versions of financial-reform legislation is being hailed by some as a modest but important step for the financial planning industry.
High-net-worth investors in the U.S. are more pessimistic about the economic recovery than wealthy individuals in many other nations, according to survey released today by Barclays Wealth.
