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The U.S. government’s $787 billion stimulus package offers ripe opportunities for fraud, according to criminal experts.
Legislation approved Wednesday by the House of Representatives that would limit bonuses at government-aided firms may lead more wirehouse brokers to become independent investment advisers, said an attorney who specializes in helping breakaway brokers start their own advisory firms.
The National Endowment for Financial Education is launching a new website specifically aimed at helping individual investors design their own customized retirement income plans.
President Obama has his eye on automatic enrollment in individual retirement accounts and an expansion of the Saver’s Credit Act as a way to encourage Americans to prepare for retirement, according to a retirement policy expert.
More employer-sponsored retirement plans may start to offer Treasury and government money market mutual funds to minimize the risk of losses, according to a survey of plan consultants released today by Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC.
In one of the single largest securities arbitration awards ever, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. has been ordered pay $39.8 million to a group affiliated with the Freemasons.
The Obama administration and Congress should immediately halt any effort to assess a punitive tax on bonuses paid this year by companies that received bailout funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Opposition to the Obama administration's proposal to create automatic retirement plans in the workplace appears to be mounting — led in large part by both employers and financial advisers.
TD Ameritrade Institutional has entered into a strategic partnership with Interactive Advisory Software and Orion Advisor Services, an agreement designed to increase the number of advisers who have assets under custody with the firm.
Two congressmen think that a new consumer watchdog agency is needed in the wake of the financial crisis.
The cost of health care in retirement has risen 50% since 2002, according to research released today by Fidelity Investments.
The Obama administration today unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financial system designed to impose greater regulation on major players like hedge funds.
Mercer LLC announced today that it will offer its defined contribution plan administration services directly to financial advisers after ending an exclusive relationship with Putnam Investments of Boston.
Thirty-four percent of U.S. employers have reduced or eliminated matching contributions in their defined contribution plans in 2008, and 29% of employers plan to do so in the next 12 months, according to a study released today.
Putnam Investments of Boston today launched a new defined contribution platform for advisers and clients, signaling its expansion into the 401(k) market.
Health care costs of Alzheimer's disease are at least $33,007 annually per patient, compared with $10,603 for an older person without Alzheimer's, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association.
The Federal Reserve's chairman and the secretary of the treasury are making a rare joint appearance at a congressional hearing, to take a scolding over AIG.
Only advisers who are independent of mutual funds, brokerage firms, insurance companies and other entities that sell financial products could give advice on individual retirement accounts if House Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Rob Andrews, D-N.J., has his way.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest employer advocacy group, has made it clear where it stands on President Obama’s proposal to create automatic retirement plans in every workplace: nice try, but no thanks.
