Bruce Wasserstein, dead for two years, still casts a pall over the Rogue River Valley of southern Oregon, home of Harry & David Holdings Inc.
Investor Phillip Frost, the largest shareholder in, and chairman of, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc., issued a challenge Friday to the independent-brokerage business, saying that his firm's plans to expand are second to none
Sponsors of legislation that would limit on the federal levy on investment income at 15% are confident of strong support in the House. The Senate is another matter, however.
Forecast returns built into most retirement tools no longer valid, experts say; 8% is history
The regulator wants to ban from its arbitration forums so called “collective action” claims brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
A team of regulators charged with preventing another financial crisis is fending off criticism it's moving too slowly to identify the firms whose failure could pose a threat to the economy.
The Institute is worried that a recent report about synthetic ETFs actually tarred all exchange-traded funds. That, in turn, led to 'inflammatory media coverage.'
Average balances of 401(k) retirement plans reached the highest level since Fidelity Investments began tracking account values in 1998.
Rising labor costs in China will prompt American factories to move production back to the U.S., creating up to 3.2 million jobs by 2020, the Boston Consulting Group said.
A California appeals court has ordered Wells Fargo Advisors LLC to pay $915,000 in legal fees to Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc. and a Stifel broker.
Jeff Henderson was a bright youngster who grew up in the inner cities of Los Angeles and San Diego. By the time he was 19, he had parlayed his natural business talents into a $35,000-a-week drug-selling operation.
Cetera Financial Group Inc. is launching a mutual fund/ETF advisory program that will give financial advisers in the firm's three broker-dealers access to institutional services and advice from three major money managers
I recently received a demonstration of Trust Co. of America's new web-based interface for clients. It is the first major piece of the custodian's overall platform retrofit to be completed
If there were any chance of a double-dip recession in the U.S., it has already happened and is over now, according to Marci Rossell, the former chief economist for CNBC.
A New York man who wrote a self-help book after pleading guilty to fraud more than a decade ago stands accused of running a $26 million Ponzi scheme to pay back victims of his earlier fraud.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today slapped a Miami man with fraud charges and other allegations, claiming that he ran a phony $3 million commodity pool.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch brokers might want to pray a little longer and a lot harder after last week's sacking of Sallie Krawcheck, who headed BofA's wealth management division
Aviva Life & Annuity Co. this month amended its lawsuit against six insurance agents in an alleged charity-owned life insurance scheme, claiming that the parishioners of a Los Angeles church were coached to lie to the insurer about the source of premiums for their coverage
Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc., the prospective owner of Securities America Inc., is offering bonuses to keep the firm's brokers on board and probably won't see an exodus, given the volatility of the stock market
Provision allows deceased to pass on exemption to spouse; expires in 2013
