CashEdge Inc. is now making its AllData Advisor account aggregation service available to financial advisers via a self-service online subscription.
Big bonuses could be back in store for some top executives and traders on Wall Street as profitability returned to the investment banking industry in 2009, according to a new study released Thursday.
The Senate Finance Committee has drafted a bill that would reduce the chances of financial advisers getting hit with lawsuits because of disputes about certain retirement plans and other types of benefit programs sold to small businesses.
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.
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.
Many if not Most Advisors of acquired firms leave "Big" and return to "Small." Why?
Cheshire Software Inc. has released an updated version of its Cheshire Wealth Manager planning program, which helps advisers develop both lifetime plans and simpler, goal-based plans for clients.
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.
A significant update to the popular financial planning program MoneyGuidePro was rolled out over the weekend.
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.
Financial advisers lack the strategies and tools to service small accounts effectively, according to a recent Russell Investments survey
The financial services industry has spent most of this year anticipating regulatory changes in response to the recent global economic crisis.
State regulators are up in arms about a provision in the proposed Investor Protection Act which would eliminate a requirement that an independent consultant hired by the Securities and Exchange Commission look into the failures at self-regulatory organizations.
The Securities and Exchange Commission would be instructed to study whether pre-sale disclosures should be required for all products sold to retail investors under a provision of financial services regulatory-reform legislation likely to be approved this week by the House Financial Services Committee.
Some 4,200 advisory firms can expect more oversight and higher costs under legislation that would remove them from SEC oversight and place them under state regulation.
In whatever way Congress and the Obama administration eventually change the national health care system, there is one segment of the health care market where reform has already begun and is gaining momentum.
The giant firm conundrum: is it possible to create scale and still stay entrepreneurial?
Two technology developments came out of the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. this past week: a new social network and an iPhone application.
Millions of workers take a huge chance with their retirement savings every year: They cash out their 401(k) accounts when they lose their jobs or move to new employers.
The House Financial Services Committee today unanimously approved a measure that would move oversight of investment advisory firms with less than $100 million in assets to state securities regulators.
