Dividends have long provided an extra boost to stock performance, but it is extremely rare for dividend-paying stocks to stack up as well against bonds, as they are today.
The wrapper's barely off the new year and LPL has already made another big move, agreeing to buy RIA Fortigent. One industry watcher says the deal is, in fact, a very big deal. Here's why.
Adviser with $2.7B in AUM reverses course, drops plan to start own broker-dealer; says reasons to form B-D 'evaporated'
Registered investment advisory firm mergers-and-acquisitions activity is at a boil this year, and the pace likely will continue, as long as volatile investment markets don't distract buyers.
The Mutual Fund Store, one of the largest RIA firms in the industry, has inked a deal to sell a controlling stake in its business to private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The announcement comes one month after <i>InvestmentNews</i> first reported that a deal for the RIA was in the works, which founder Adam Bold (pictured) denied at the time.
Purchase of Merriman hikes firms' AUM to nearly $60 billion; more TBA?
Pair of brokers in Lone Star state suspended for selling bogus promissory notes from now-defunct National Life Settlements; 'We were fooled'
Survey finds little support for carried interest income treatment; 'scream bloody murder'
Retirement plan advisers are most interested about fees and expenses when talking to fund wholesalers.
Roger Michaud, chairman of the College Savings Foundation and a senior vice president at Franklin Templeton Distributors Inc., stands behind Section 529 college savings programs as the best way to pay for increasing higher-education expenses.
Alternative investment managers Bridgewater Associates and AQR Capital Management are turning their attention to the defined contribution plan market with tweaks to their strategies.
Fairholme Fund boss looking for big rebound after lousy 2011; BofA turnaround would help mightily
Deutsche Bank could sell its asset-management units, including DWS mutual funds, RREEF, DB Advisors and its insurance asset management arm.
SRO's boss says issue now a top concern for regulator; also homing in on disclosure for complex products
