A significant update to the popular financial planning program MoneyGuidePro was rolled out last week.
Financial advisers with Securities America Inc. continued to sell offerings of allegedly faulty private placements after an executive at the firm sounded the alarm bell about the deals last year, according to a recently filed lawsuit.
Recent and upcoming unit sales at Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. will give the bank holding company enough cash to repay government bailout funds without a capital raise, an analyst said Wednesday.
Today marks the start of another offensive in the war to attract and retain advisers through <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090607/REG/306079968/1035&ht="" target="”_blank”" rel="noopener noreferrer">technology</a>.
Three months after the creation of Thomson Reuters, company executives are promising financial advisers that an improved platform is on the way.
Know and follow the unwritten (until now!) protocol
They used to ride desks and flog stocks, but now some Wall Street refugees are choosing to walk a beat and chase bad guys.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has introduced custom target date funds to its more than 1 million 401(k) participants, following an unusual selection process.
There are few places in the tax law where one can “undo” an earlier taxable act.
At the same time that LPL Holdings Inc. and the three broker-dealers it bought from Pacific Life Insurance Co. were filing suit against the insurer, LPL was reaching out to its advisers to reassure them that the dispute wouldn't affect their businesses.
These days, money market funds are investing only the safest securities.
A legion of intrepid financial advisers are twittering, linking in and in many other ways harnessing the power of the Internet to network socially in a bid to expand their practices.
SEC has unanimously approved a proposal that would require mutual funds to use computer tags to label key information about fees, performance and strategies.
Extensible business reporting language, or XBRL, is a language standard used to communicate business and financial information electronically.
No one can accuse Christopher Cox of being a neophyte when it comes to technology.
Tensions at home were mounting after Jeremy Field lost a second construction job as the recession hit. He spent his days on the Internet and the phone looking for work. His wife, Kelly, who had been home caring for their toddler son, reluctantly returned to teaching preschool. But her part-time work meant a huge cut in wages and benefits, forcing them to sell a car and slash Christmas spending.
Terra Nova Financial LLC, a Chicago-based broker, has been fined $400,000 by federal regulators who say the firm made unauthorized payments to clients, including money to cover one hedge fund manager's visits to a “gentleman's club.”
Financial advisers beware: All Roth IRA conversion calculators are not created equal.
