The brokerage industry will put up a fight to stop <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091101/REG/311019957>a potential power shift</a> that could give the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. oversight of much of the investment advisory industry.
Bank of America's outgoing CEO Ken Lewis says the economy may be improving but the recovery in the financial industry remains slow.
With Congress advancing its controversial 1,900-page health care reform legislation, Wall Street has pushed health care sector stocks into value territory, according to Tyler Dann, co-manager of the $4.8 billion Aim Charter Fund <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?q=chtrx&INDA=1&crit=&SearchCategory=CHART%3BREG%3BFREE%3BSUB&SearchProfile=1119&x=47&y=9&symbol=&targetURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.investmentnews.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Fsection%3Fcategory%3Dstocklookup&category=ETFLOOKUP&searchType=etf>CHTRX</a>.
Providers of 401(k) plans have lambasted a critical article published Oct. 9 in Time magazine denouncing the 401(k) system.
Denver Nuggets basketball star Carmelo Anthony filed a lawsuit in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., this week alleging that his former financial and business adviser transferred more than $2 million from his accounts without his knowledge or consent.
The number of defendants agreeing to settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped for the second straight time in fiscal 2009, declining nearly 8% to 626 defendants from 673 in fiscal 2008, according to a report released today by NERA Economic Consulting.
Stock futures are slightly lower as the dollar strengthens and investors weigh whether the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates sooner than expected.
Stocks and the dollar gained Monday as investors tried to predict when interest rates might start rising.
The House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday unanimously approved a bill that would create a federal insurance office within the Treasury Department.
Although costs are tight for many advisers, these types of client appreciation events remain extremely important — especially following last year's market collapse, which left many clients worried about their financial future.
A MetLife Inc. subsidiary and three other affiliates have been fined a total $1.2 million for alleged failures to ensure supervisors could review brokers' e-mails with the public.
Federal agents are seizing assets from a Florida lawyer suspected of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
Investment adviser Value Line Inc., its CEO and its former compliance chief have agreed to pay about $45 million to settle regulators' allegations the firm charged more than $24 million in bogus commissions on mutual fund trades.
JPMorgan Chase paying more than $700 million to settle SEC charges over Ala. county bonds
The American Council of Life Insurers has elected C. Robert Henrikson, chairman and chief executive of MetLife Inc., as its 2010 chairman.
In the long battle to position themselves as wealth managers, life insurance companies still have to prove to financial advisers that they can do more than sell annuities.
You wouldn't know it from the way most mutual fund companies and insurers are marketing their products today, but retirement income in all its dimensions is going to be the key driver of the financial and investment business for the next two decades at least.
