In these nail-biting times, advisers need to know who the big shots are.
Advisers who grapple with the complexities of retirement income will be getting more help next year from Moshe Milevsky, an associate professor of finance at York University in Toronto and executive director of the Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions Centre.
Sen. Christopher Dodd has his own reasons for pushing hard for financial services reform next year.
A leading securities regulator for the lion's share of his career, Finra chairman and chief executive Richard Ketchum is poised to oversee one of the most significant day-to-day changes most registered representatives will ever experience.
Financial advisers see “Finra” plastered across SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro's forehead, and it makes them nervous.
The mutual fund industry's Holy Grail is a fund that can provide investors with a guaranteed stream of income without tying up the client's money in an annuity.
J. Mark Iwry is the quarterback of the Obama administration's retirement policy team, but he'll play offense, defense and for the other side when it comes to his mission: to find new ways to help Americans save.
The tough economic environment has forced many older Americans into a “recession lifestyle,” in which they're slashing spending and making other sacrifices in order to make ends meet, a new survey has found.
U.S. stock futures rose Friday, following overseas markets higher on a report that China's exports improved.
Stocks rose Friday after a report on retail sales indicated consumers are picking up their spending.
Morningstar Inc., a provider of investment research, said Friday it has agreed to buy Logical Information Machines Inc. for $51.5 million.
European markets followed Asian stocks higher Friday as a big improvement in China's exports pointed to rising global demand.
Stonegate Wealth Management LLC and Family Financial Research LLC announced yesterday that they have joined forces.
The broker recruiting wars are heating up, with wirehouses jacking up their offers to new heights to lure more representatives in 2010.
Just A few weeks after officially joining UBS AG as the head of its U.S. wealth management business, Bob McCann has snared four veterans from his former firm, Merrill Lynch & Co., to help improve UBS' financial advisory business here.
House Financial Markets Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., will move to strip a controversial amendment from the Investor Protection Act — which the House Financial Services Committee approved with a 41-28 vote today — that would give Finra power over a quarter of all federally-registered investment advisory firms.
The Financial Planning Coalition has found a last-minute angel in Sen. Herbert Kohl, who wants to establish a Federal oversight board for planners. Insurers and state regulators are less enthusiastic about the idea.
The Bank of England is holding interest rates steady at 0.5 percent and leaving its 200 billion pound ($325 billion) program to expand the money supply unchanged.
A weaker dollar and hopes for more good news on employment are lifting stock futures.
