<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Euro stocks rally but for how long?. Plus: The China risk, big money managers are flush once again, the future of airplane seating, and 21 inspirational yearbook quotes.
On the heels of publishing his new memoir, the former Treasury secretary talks about how today's market lull is reminiscent of the environment leading up to the crisis.
Carolyn Kaufman, a former president of a Prim Capital Corp. advisory services unit, was sentenced to 3 years' probation, including 6 months under house arrest, for lying to a grand jury investigating a fraud against the National Basketball Players Association.
Move is the latest in a series of management changes at Cetera Financial Group.
Behavioral finance is the hot topic at financial advisory conferences.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Ukraine heats up and fund winners and losers come into focus. Plus: Fed-speak clarity: an oxymoron? Bank loan funds fall victim to Fed policy, Obamacare drags us back to the 1950s and banks square off with Big Labor in Vegas.
Now that it looks like the SEC will get an additional $150 million in funding, speculation is mounting on how the funds will be deployed. Is increasing adviser oversight going to be a priority?
Former N.Y. governor David Paterson joins broker-dealer IFS Securities, where he will help develop new business opportunities for firm
Sources say London Stock Exchange will keep indexing unit, could get $700 million to $1 billion for money management, consulting businesses.
As yields fall to historic lows, investors should look to muni bonds and emerging-markets bonds. Meanwhile, stop considering Treasuries a safety play.
Firm flush with $1 billion as it seeks out acquisitions; looks to beef up presence in West and Northeast.
Co-chairman of debt-reduction commission says the markets are headed toward a dip worse than 2008 if politicians don't get spending under control
Year-over-year profits at the big four rose 16% in the first quarter, but which firm fared best?
After profits climb 30%, CEO challenges brokers to do more lending and boost margins
Pushing her colleagues to decide whether to propose a regulation to raise investment advice standards for brokers, the SEC chairman called the uniform fiduciary standard 'a primary, immediate focus.' <i>(See what Mark Cuban had <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140221/FREE/140229971" target="_blank">to say</a>.)</i>
In a head-turning move, newcomer to the independent broker-dealer industry Nicholas Schorsch is pulling off the largest independent-broker-dealer acquisition in years, with a cash deal to buy Cetera Financial Group.
How impact investing, which targets companies or projects that effect positive change, while at the same time delivering a return, is gaining a foothold among the younger generation.
The Martins lived in short-term rental apartments from Mexico to Turkey and England to Argentina. But how practical is the lifestyle?
Ben Pace, Deutsche Bank AG's chief investment officer for wealth management in the Americas, is leaving, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
