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While the financial advice industry wrangles with regulators and lawmakers over a universal fiduciary standard, most investors are far more concerned about getting their phone calls returned
Just as financial advisers are embracing alternative investments as a way to generate income for clients, their chief regulator is warning them of the perils of one such type of offering: structured products
Finra is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars this year to lobby Congress to authorize a self-regulatory organization for investment advisers — a role that it would like to fill itself
News that Jackson National Life Insurance Co. will curtail sales of its popular variable annuity products — likely by limiting investments — has financial advisers on the lookout for the next best thing and its competitors waiting with open arms for an expected uptick in sales
Variable annuity sales at Jackson National Life Insurance have been surging -- so much so that parent company, Britain's Prudential, has deciced to dial back on the product. Yes, you read that right.
Regulator hits Workman Securities with $700K fine; also sanctions execs at other firms that sold several soured private placements
<a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=datajoe&djoPage=summary&issuedate=20100423&sid=BD0426&djoProjId=10994&djoRecordId=290006>QA3 Financial Corp.</a>, an independent broker-dealer that was a leading seller of high-risk private placements over the last decade, in a recent lawsuit said its insurance carrier was pushing it into bankruptcy by failing to back up its coverage.
In time for Gay Pride Month, New York Life Insurance Co. has launched a LGBT channel on its website to address financial and estate-planning needs unique to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
If consumers continue to feel nervous about their money over the next few months, it's a sure sign that the U.S. economy will dive straight into a double-dip recession
A quarter of America's metropolitan areas have jobless rates of 10% or more, above the national average, and many won't see jobs return to pre-recession levels for years.
Long/short ETF manager likes tech, energy and financial companies
Calvert Capital Accumulation Fund off to a good start this year
The trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff's defunct investment firm asked a judge to authorize payments to him and his law firm of $43.2 million for four months' work, bringing total fees sought in the case to $175.5 million since Mr. Madoff's arrest
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP were paid $19.2 million in fees and $284,451 for expenses from June 1 through Sept. 30. High fees in the liquidations of the Lehman brokerage, and of the jailed Ponzi-scheme operator Bernard Madoff's firm, might deplete the $2.5 billion fund of the Securities Investor Protection Corp., an audit found.
John Hancock's new fiduciary program for high-end advisers beats coming regulation to the punch
A federal certification would strain resources; some simple approaches help
By the time the clients get a halfhearted call from someone whom they have never met, asking them to keep their business with the firm, they have already heard a much more compelling argument from someone that they are used to trusting: their adviser
The Ohio Division of Securities issued a notice that it intends to file a cease-and-desist order against a banned broker who allegedly continued to act as an investment adviser
Seeking to enlarge its footprint in the small- and midmarket-retirement-plan area, Neuberger Berman LLC has brought on a trio of wholesalers
