Life insurance producer advocacy groups celebrated the House Financial Services Committee's approval yesterday of the proposed Investor Protection Act, but stressed the bill still doesn't go far enough in protecting commissioned-based insurance sales agents.
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is pulling its stand-alone long-term-care insurance product off the shelves, effective Nov. 13.
Stocks are rising as investors get some encouraging news on the labor market and wait for the Federal Reserve to weigh in on the economy.
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As any stockbroker knows, it isn't just online and institutional brokers that offer discounts. Brokers at full-service firms have long offered commission concessions to keep their top customers happy, and their firms have more or less acceded if the broker met a minimum level of revenue production.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a “comprehensive review” of the way proxy ballots are voted in the election of corporate directors and how proxy information is communicated to shareholders, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said this morning in New York at the Practising Law Institute's 41st annual Institute on Securities Regulation.
The Hartford Financial Services Group on Tuesday posted a much narrower loss for the third quarter, as its investment losses shrank as financial markets improved.
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The House Financial Services Committee voted Wednesday to give federal regulators more power and money to police major players in the stock market, four months after Bernard Madoff was sentenced for the biggest investment scam in history.
The Phoenix Cos. Inc., following a series of ratings downgrades earlier this year that halted sales of its life insurance and annuity products by major outside distributors, today announced the creation of a distribution company, Saybrus Partners Inc., and a consulting agreement with Edward Jones & Co. LP.
Investors sidestepped some of their doubts about the strength of an economic recovery and pushed into energy, industrial and materials stocks as commodity prices rose.
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., the brokerage services firm spun off by Automatic Data Processing Inc., is selling its securities clearing business to Penson Worldwide Inc. and its Penson Financial Services Inc. subsidiary.
Hopes for the fledgling economic recovery got a boost Monday from better-than-expected news on manufacturing, construction and contracts to buy homes.
The bankruptcy of a key lender that helps retailers stock their shelves is adding to the industry's worries ahead of the critical holiday shopping season.
Stocks are snapping back from Friday's big losses as stronger-than-expected reports on manufacturing and housing allay concerns that the economy's recovery won't last.
A former securities broker has pleaded guilty to charges he helped a prominent Manhattan lawyer dupe hedge funds into making bogus investments.
The financial advisory industry and their clients still may be struggling with the aftermath of the market crash — but investor plaintiff's attorneys are doing just fine, thank you.
Penson Worldwide has agreed to buy the clearing contracts of Broadridge Financial Solutions for $60-$70 million as part of a new partnership the two firms revealed Monday evening.
A panel of life insurance company chief executives last week assessed how the industry has dealt with the financial crisis, debating the merits of mutual companies versus stock companies.
Financial advisers lack the strategies and tools to service small accounts effectively, according to a recent Russell Investments survey
