Competition among clearing firms and custodians to woo advisers with technology ratcheted up a notch last week when National Financial Services LLC said that it had integrated the Thomson One wealth management platform into its Streetscape broker workstation.
Two House committees today approved the Affordable Health Choices Act, a health care reform bill that would expand health insurance to 97% of Americans.
'Tis the season for rolling out integrated adviser desktops.
Going beyond their past call for a professional oversight board for financial planners, the Financial Planning Coalition today will ask Congress to bring under one organizational umbrella all advisers who provide financial planning services.
Wall Street's major trade group has declared its support for a new federal fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and investment advisers who provide personalized investment advice.
With the decline in the stock market over the last year, there is renewed interest in lifetime income guarantees for retirees. So, does it make sense to annuitize retirement money or roll the dice with market based returns?
Organizations representing investment advisers and consumers today called for Congress to ensure that fiduciary standards are not weakened as financial service regulatory reforms are enacted.
The Securities and Exchange Commission would gain more authority to make rules governing broker compensation under draft legislation sent by the Department of the Treasury to Capitol Hill Friday.
Financial advisers are overwhelmingly in favor of adopting a fiduciary standard for all advisers, and they also think that the industry should be governed by a single regulatory body.
An investment fiduciary's duty of loyalty demands that the investor's best interests guide the decision-making process.
Amid the economic downturn, 401(k) abuses by plan sponsors are on the rise.
Complain as they do about technology, most financial advisers don't realize how good they have it compared with advisers who work for family offices.
State regulators have an ally in the Obama administration.
The BRIC group — Brazil, Russia, India and China — for a number of years has functioned as a proxy for large developing markets with an attractive long-term return potential.
As the House Financial Services Committee this week begins to hash out plans to make President Obama's proposed consumer financial protection agency a reality, state-regulated investment advisers could find themselves under federal jurisdiction.
A bill to provide low-cost loans to unemployed homeowners with delinquent mortgages was introduced yesterday by Rep. Barney Frank, D.-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says that Congress will substantially increase the power of government regulators to monitor derivatives, a type of financial instrument that contributed to the U.S. economic turmoil.
Draft legislation that would give the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to require brokers who give investment advice to act as fiduciaries was sent to Capitol Hill today by the Treasury Department.
A new website hopes to succeed by providing a virtual vault that provides access to vital family documents.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., has introduced legislation proposed by President Obama to set up a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
