Amid bad news in the financial sector, life insurance executives were urged to fight for clients’ trust in their industry and products at the research organization’s annual meeting in Hollywood, Fla.
With the economy in the throes of a financial crisis, financial advisers have found a silver lining in recent declines in crude-oil prices, but many are still skeptical about jumping into the energy market right away.
Some longtime bearish market gurus have turned bullish.
Congress is likely to debate another economic-stimulus package soon after it returns to Washington from campaigning for the election, unless the economy shows signs of turning around.
The financial markets' continuing woes are driving some financial advisers to rethink the notion of buying and holding for the long term, opting instead for strategies that look a lot like market timing.
Registered investment advisers who are frustrated with getting a blank stare when they tell potential clients that they are independent and not a broker-dealer, are being asked to unite around a new branding campaign called OneVoiceRIA.
When Dr. Debra Zelinsky decided to buy an office condo in the Chicago area to expand her flourishing neural-optometry practice early this year, she faced a dilemma.
Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., the pioneer of discount brokerage and the first broker to focus a business unit solely on independent investment advisers, appears to have proved once again that it pays to be first.
LPL Financial plans a spirited defense against claims that it was negligent in its supervision of a rogue broker who allegedly stole $5 million from at least 40 victims, many from his church in Phoenix.
The government rescue plan inevitably will produce many villains.
The Treasury Department wants insurance companies to participate in its $700 billion bailout program —and it may take equity stakes in return.
More than 50 letters that contained threats and an unidentified white powder have been mailed to U.S. financial institutions and government offices.
The Department of the Treasury has begun to purchase stakes in several regional banks as the government aims to halt the freeze of the credit markets,
AIG has borrowed $90.3 billion from the federal government, surpassing its original $85 billion rescue loan.
The plaintiff's bar will continue pushing for the elimination of industry arbitrators, said Brian Smiley, the new president of PIABA.
Great Britain’s second largest life insurer, Prudential PLC, is considering buying some of American International Group Inc.’s business units.
T. Rowe Price Group Inc. reported its first profit drop since 2003 today as weak credit conditions led to a steep decline in inflows.
Sobering economic news in Europe, combined with continuing concerns about the U.S. economy, shattered markets in Europe and Asia today.
A Boston federal jury found that disability insurer Unum Group committed fraud against the United States in some of its disability cases.
Home sales increased 5.5% last month from August and 1.4% from a year earlier to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.18 million units, according to the NAR.
