Labor secretary says the extensive rulemaking process and the regulation's merits of consumer protection will protect the measure.
Advisers and clients often do a great job preparing the money for the family, but they fail to prepare the family for the money.
Boomer advisers must assure successors a future, or they won't stick around to help you cash out
Warren Buffett, the world's third-richest person, shed $11.3 billion as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had its first negative annual return since 2011.
...investors would be clamoring to buy it. In the U.S., the low-cost mutual fund giant has taken in about $1 billion a day over the past 18 months.
Rick Fleming will push the agency to follow through on its review of how brokers and investment advisers disclose their fees to clients.
Now's the time to assess how you felt and what you did in response to Brexit, and what you might be tempted to do in the coming weeks and months.
First Eagle Overseas Fund's large cash holdings gives it a 'leg up' when markets turn choppy.
Advisers tried to prepare investors for Friday's wild ride as global markets digested the United Kingdom's surprising vote to exit the European Union after 43 years.
Anthony Diaz, under federal indictment for fraudulent sales of alternatives, embodies the criticisms of the likes of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
The top investment strategists say Mr. Trump's anti-trade, anti-immigration and isolationist policies would also hurt the U.S.'s standing in the world.
Bank of America's brokerage unit admits wrongdoing in unprecedented <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20160623/FREE/160629959/merrill-lynch-to-pay-415m-to-settle-sec-charges-it-misused-customer">$415M consumer protection settlement </a> with SEC; slapped with two other fines the same day.
While the new fiduciary rule could be interpreted as an unnecessary compliance burden, it may also present an opportunity with regard to 401(k) accounts.
Edmund F. Murphy III, president of Empower Retirement, says reforms need to be led by the private sector.
Artificial intelligence investment-advice services are likely to become more popular as banks expand services for the less-than-fabulously rich.
The bill still requires passage by the Senate, which plans to take it up in the next several weeks.
Following record MetLife fine, regulator says VAs are now at the core of their focus: complex products marketed to seniors.
The original industry regulations from 1934 and 1940 were perfect — just not perfectly enforced.
Latest lawsuit alleges widespread misuse of investor funds abetted by the brokerage firm.
Push by advisers could help tug this needed legislation out of the doldrums and on to the president's desk.
