The Labor Department has officially killed a Bush administration rule that would have cleared the way for mutual fund companies to offer direct one-on-one investment advice through their affiliates to defined contribution plan participants.
In a move likely to be replicated by most exchanges, the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. announced this week that it will begin providing real-time latency measurement to its customers.
Milliman Inc. is in discussions with a number of mutual fund companies, insurers and 401(k) plan sponsors to launch a guaranteed-income product that would be backed by a pool of insurers.
Despite the growing trend of employers putting their 401(k) plans on autopilot, many more are making investment advice available to plan participants, according to a Hewitt Associates survey released last week.
A proposal by the Securities and Exchange Commission that would require advisory firms that hold custody of client assets to be audited by accountants that are inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board would cost each firm an average of $200,000, according to one new estimate.
The financial advisory industry is rallying its troops against a controversial SEC rule proposal that would subject thousands of investment advisers to surprise exams by outside auditors.
Smith Barney has hit a former adviser with a lawsuit, an arbitration claim and a restraining order, claiming that the rep improperly pursued clients and used confidential information after he resigned from the brokerage arm of New York-based Citigroup Inc. at midmonth.
Cabinet NG, a document management and workflow software maker, this week launched two new tools the company says are intended to expedite searches and better access documents in its filing system <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/PHOTOGALLERY/804931245/1102/INTechnologyNews03"" target="”_blank”" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNG-Safe</a> (an acronym for Safe Access Filing Environment)
Advent Software Inc. this week introduced an index data service that allows advisers to download index performance data from Standard & Poor's and Russell Investments directly into Advent Portfolio Exchange, its integrated portfolio and client relationship management system.
Lord Abbett & Co. LLC has created a new website to provide financial advisers with direct acces to a range of information about the money management company's funds, as welll as broader financial information.
TD Ameritrade Institutional unveiled a tool last week that gives its business development efforts a technological boost.
After focusing their efforts on increasing 401(k) fee disclosure, members of an influential committee last week approved a more comprehensive package of potential retirement reforms.
A key Congressional committee is expected to vote on a proposal - as early as next week - that could potentially bar thousands of brokers from providing investment advice to 401(k) participants, according to sources.
A New Jersey-based financial adviser has admitted operating a scheme that defrauded investors of more than $9 million.
William Blair & Co. LLC and two ex-brokers at the firm have been socked with a $1.1 million arbitration decision that centered on two brokers' setting up a phony e-mail address where they sent statements from the brokerage account of an 88-year-old widow.
With the Labor Department stepping up scrutiny of conflicts of interest and fee disclosures, broker-dealers are becoming concerned about how their reps handle rollover assets from 401(k) plans.
Swiss tax authorities said Tuesday they have notified the first 500 clients of Swiss bank UBS AG whose names they want to hand over to the United States for alleged tax cheating.
State and federal prosecutors have charged seven people in an alleged securities scam that cheated dozens of people out of $17 million.
Finra has opened up its checkbook to lobby Congress for authority over investment advisers.
