Insurer settles with California over allegedly inappropriate fixed annuity sales.
Cynthia King will be head of products for the the company’s Employer Markets Defined Contribution and Executive Benefits Business segment.
Ameriprise Financial Inc. is calling 10,000 of its financial advisers to its headquarters for technology training on a grand scale.
Despite initial concerns about portability, cost and complexity, annuities in defined contribution plans are slowly gaining momentum, according to a new report.
Complying with new 401(k) fee disclosures will be an arduous task, said a number of leading attorneys.
In this election year, the country deserves a realistic budget, and President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2009 isn't it — even though it predicts a deficit of $407 billion.
A broker who was recently booted from the securities industry has cost Next Financial Group Inc. and Raymond James Financial Services Inc. dearly — with the two firms paying out almost $850,000 to settle cases involving clients who got burned.
Version 7.0 of Junxure, the office management and work flow automation software created by and for financial advisers, will be released in the next few weeks, and it is getting some positive early reviews.
The SEC, FINRA and NASAA will seek input on firms’ best practices to protect senior investors.
A survey finding that arbitration customers do not believe the process is fair was “inconsistent,” FINRA said.
Most participants did not believe that the process was fair to all parties and were not satisfied with the outcome.
Technology to help automate and improve the compliance function may not ring a financial adviser's cash register, but it certainly can reduce the time-consuming and potentially costly problems that compliance failures create.
Wall Street pundits should lay off Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his Federal Reserve Board colleagues for being cautious with interest rate moves.
Raymond James' asset-management unit and its bank could be worth close to $4 billion, according to Barrons.
Research shows that women are more vulnerable to poverty in old age than men for several reasons, including their longer life spans, shorter and interrupted working careers, and lower earnings.
If Charles Massimo had it to do all over again, he still would choose to leave Smith Barney and become an independent broker.
The Senate is planning to vote on a $160 billion version of the stimulus bill tomorrow.
After a sterling 2007, leading independent-contractor broker-dealers are facing a horde of significant problems this year, with the subprime-mortgage crisis, skyrocketing gas and oil prices and the threat of a recession the most daunting.
