Former Fidelity distribution head Peter Cieszko will join American Century in a new position heading up intermediary and institutional sales in North America
Taxpayers still need to file by April 18 — even if federal government's gone fishin'
Legislative ambiguity about public pension funds, as well as their underfunded status, has financial advisers who work with public employees scrambling to plug holes in their retirement plans
The mutual fund industry will be one of the targets of more-aggressive enforcement by the SEC, according to experts who spoke last week at an Investment Company Institute conference
Investors say they want clearer explanations about strategies, losses; close to half do their own planning, survey shows
Record earnings fueled by the highest profit margins since 1993 are giving executives more leeway than ever to boost dividends as the bull market enters its third year
Asset manager set to launch customized programs for broker-dealers
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has tapped its <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110404/FREE/110409984 second Pimco exec</a> this month to help expand distribution.
Thousands of financial advisers are running late in meeting the SEC's March 31st deadline for submitting their ADV 2 forms, a post-Madoff rule requiring plain English disclosure of their business. Need some quick tips? <i>InvestmentNews'</i> Liz Skinner and others weigh in.
Aiming to extend its outreach to large financial services firms, the CFP Board has hired Joseph V. Maugeri as its director of business development.
The BofA-Merrill boss sounds set to take on recruiters, the threat of the rising RIA model, and anyone else who steps in her path
With the Bush tax cuts extended for another two years, wealthy Americans can expect their tax liabilities to remain the same, right?
Has Bank of America Corp. upped the ante in the battle between the wirehouses and the independent advisory firms gunning for their top producers?
Firm hires Delaware Investment and Wellington Management to manage one-third of $3.7B fund, joining William Blair
The U.K. government proposed replacing its current means-tested state pension with a flat-rate payment of about 140 pounds ($225) a week, with the goal of increasing incentives for people to save for their old age.
Although many federally registered advisers were scrambling last week to meet the March 31 filing date for the new ADV Part 2 forms, state-registered advisers in several states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas, were enjoying a bit of a reprieve
The Labor Department is expected to release distribution guidance aimed at plan participants as they exit defined-contribution plans, according to a well-known employee benefits attorney
Republican lawmakers should stand down in their efforts to delay and obstruct the shaping of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which if properly implemented will go down in history as the most significant and innovative change to come out of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law
The fiduciary standard is all about serving the best interests of investors
