A “mockumentary” film to be released on DVD this month takes on Ponzi schemes, multilevel marketing scams and “the get-rich-quick mindset that nearly bankrupted America,” according to its official website.
As Congress takes up health care reform, too little attention is being paid to long term care.
Rydex Investments, now Rydex SGI, is repositioning itself to focus on an expanded set of asset management capabilities.
Something must be done to encourage employees of small companies to save for retirement. As many as 78 million such workers aren't saving for the future and ultimately will depend solely on Social Security for retirement income.
As new annuity rules continue to develop, chief compliance officers at broker-dealers say that they still face some challenges in implementing compliance procedures with their financial advisers.
Executives of Pershing, the largest provider of clearing services to broker-dealers, spent much of their energy at the firm's annual Insite conference trying to persuade clients to open their brokerage doors to fee-based registered investment advisers.
Keith Gregg, former president and chief executive of First Allied Securities Inc. of San Diego, is suing the firm, claiming that he was forced out after complaining about improper practices at the company. Officials at the firm deny the charges and were set to answer the complaint and file a counterclaim against him today.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s proposal to widen its purview to include non-securities products has left some in the fixed-annuities industry gnashing their teeth.
The Obama administration's sweeping proposal to tighten financial regulation is unlikely to press for the formation of a self-regulatory organization to oversee investment advisers.
Pershing LLC, the largest provider of back-office services and financing to small and independent broker-dealers, this month began charging shareholder servicing fees to brokers and financial advisers who buy certain mutual funds from its Fund Center platform.
Make way for the 1,600-pound gorilla in the money management industry.
Online charitable giving provides only a small slice of revenue for charities, but that is changing, according to a survey of 400 non-profit organizations conducted by Convio Inc.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Alabama Securities Commission announced today that they have charged Aura Financial Services Inc., a Birmingham-based broker-dealer, with churning customer accounts, supervisory failures and other violations.
The insurer yesterday received preliminary clearance to accept approximately $3.4 billion in federal aid.
The Principal Financial Group has declined to participate in the U.S. Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program.
It was the largest increase since sales surged by 1.7 percent in January following six straight declines.
City National Corp., a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based bank holding company that owns Convergent Capital Management LLC, has agreed to buy a majority interest in Lee Munder Capital Group, a firm with more than $3 billion of assets under management.
More than 321,000 households received at least one foreclosure-related notice last month — 18 percent more than a year earlier — but the smallest annual gain since June 2006.
The Labor Department says initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped last week by 24,000 to a seasonally adjusted 601,000. That's below analysts' estimates of 615,000.
The proposal would allow the SEC to issue rules requiring companies to give shareholders more say in executive compensation.
