Insurance provider Assurant put its CEO and CFO on administrative leave after regulators notified the two executives that they may face civil charges.
Only 38% of consumers think the U.S. will be the world economic leader in ten years, but few plan on investing abroad.
Willis Group Holdings. today agreed to reimburse about $2.6 million to cities and counties throughout Florida.
Fidelity Investments has appointed Rodger Lawson as the president of FMR Corp., the group's holding company.
The largest B-D network will fold American General Securities of Houston into AIG Financial Advisors of Phoenix.
An ex-COO is suing the company, saying he was unfairly compensated in the wake of a bid-rigging scandal.
Some brokerage firms are miffed about higher registration fees that Florida implemented this month, and blame the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association for not doing enough to stop the increases.
Registered investment advisers are the fastest-growing distribution channel for mutual-fund-based small-business 401(k)s. Starting from a small base, they are adding assets at the rate of about 14% a year, according to Boston-based Financial Research Corp.
Talks about the proposed merger between two Toronto-based securities industry self-regulating organizations are hiccupping along.
An upsurge in mergers-and-acquisitions activity in the investment management industry is leading some market insiders to speculate that deals involving some well-known companies may be in the works.
Jon A. Boscia’s retirement announcement this month has nothing to do with the company’s merger prospects or its financial performance, according to the chief executive and chairman of Lincoln Financial Group.
In a case that married dry-as-dust estate-planning issues with “Dallas”-like squabbling among wealthy family members, a Texas court has decided that King Ranch heir B.K. Johnson had all his faculties when he drew up his last will and that his widow and third wife didn’t manipulate him into excluding his children.
A proposal to provide tougher qualification standards for investing in hedge funds and other alternative investments has proved to be so controversial that the Securities and Exchange Commission may have to alter the plan or scrap it altogether.
Two legal decisions this month related to equity index annuities make clear that plaintiffs must attack specific annuity provisions or standardized marketing materials in order to show the “commonality” needed for class action certification.
IRVINE, Calif. — An SEC proposal to change how broker-dealers can invest customer reserve funds has come under attack from a variety of industry interests.
CHICAGO — Financial advisers are crafting new strategies to convince clients to complete their wills and estate plans.
SAN FRANCISCO — A small company is betting that it can turn defined benefit plans into a mainstream product for financial advisers to sell.
NEW YORK — The rich are different, and so are their insurance needs, but many wealthy people may be leaving themselves unprotected, according to personal-lines-property-casualty-insurance specialists.
