In the wake of the stock market downturn, more financial advisers are turning to technical analysis.
As retirement looms for baby boomers, financial advisers are finding additional uses for their clients' health savings accounts, including covering the cost of long term care insurance.
Thanks to unprecedented market volatility, widely followed style indexes published by Russell Investments are expected to look substantially different at the end of the month when the firm's stock indexes are re-balanced.
Raymond James Financial Inc. has acquired a boutique investment bank to expand its reach in that business, following through on plans to scoop up acquisitions in the troubled market.
Two bills that would transform the way insurance agents are licensed and regulated are likely to face a difficult time in the Senate, according to insurance industry officials.
Smith Barney is not letting at least one of its brokers break away without a fight.
The expected reduction in front-end sales charges by large mutual fund companies may help stimulate sagging sales for Section 529 college savings plans.
Household financial decisions are being made increasingly by affluent women, creating opportunities for financial advisers, according to two industry surveys.
In an era of unprecedented dividend cuts, money managers and financial advisers are stepping up their due diligence when searching for income.
Congress should pass, as quickly as possible, a bill to establish an Office of Insurance Information.
The following edited transcript is from “Surviving an SEC audit after Madoff,” an </i>InvestmentNews<i> webcast held May 19
Broker-dealers may face higher costs connected with customer disputes if revised legislation that would do away with mandatory securities arbitration passes both houses of Congress and is signed into law.
Proposed IRS rules would allow employers that made automatic 401(k) plan contributions under a safe-harbor provision to suspend or reduce those contributions if they incurred a substantial business hardship.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a list of regulations for money market funds that goes far beyond proposed reforms issued in March by the Investment Company Institute.
In what may be a reprieve for advisory firms, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro seems to have backed off from an idea that would require some advisory firms to face third-party compliance procedure audits.
Federal regulators have sued a defunct California investment brokerage and its former CEO, accusing them of fraud in selling more than $300 million worth of risky mortgage-backed securities to unsophisticated investors.
Eric R. Dinallo is resigning as superintendent of the New York state Insurance Department, effective July 3, to become the Henry Kaufman visiting professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
A late day shot of adrenaline has sent stock prices soaring and given the big market indexes their third straight monthly gain.
The U.S. economy sank at a 5.7 percent pace in the first quarter as the brute force of the recession carried over into this year. However, many analysts believe activity isn't shrinking nearly as much now as the downturn flashes signs of letting up.
Two-thirds of investors believe that target date funds need to be combined with other funds to achieve a proper mix for their retirement portfolios, a white paper released yesterday by Janus Capital Group Inc. of Denver suggests.
