Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has lost a $3 million producing team of veteran Smith Barney brokers to rival J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.
Standard and Poor's Equity Research has a positive fundamental outlook for auto makers.
Finra is playing hardball with a broker-dealer that recently lost a securities arbitration, according to the chief executive of the small broker-dealer that's battling with the regulator.
Another small broker-dealer has been shut down, with this one owing $1.2 million in damages and legal fees imposed on it in a recent arbitration decision.
After her mother died, Jasmine Williams was assured by MetLife Inc. that her $101,819 in life insurance benefits were safe and was sent what the company called a guaranteed money market “checkbook” in 2002.
Gold, which reached a six-week high in New York today, may gain as signs of a slowing economic recovery and a weaker dollar increase demand for the metal as a protection of wealth.
Global economic conditions are now favorable for gold as a safe-haven investment.
Eric Mindich's $13 billion Eton Park Capital Management LP led hedge funds in raising gold investments last quarter, joining billionaire John Paulson's bet that bullion will increase amid inflation concerns.
The Charles Schwab Corp. and Charles Goldman have agreed to meet with a private mediator next month to discuss the former executive vice president's demand for $736,000 in severance pay following his dismissal in 2008 as head of the firm's RIA business.
Once bidding starts for N.Y. plan, investor fees will likely fall; 'egregiously overpriced'
Almost two years after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s failure caused world markets to seize up, Pacific Investment Management Co. is planning a fund that will offer protection to investors against market declines of more than 15 percent.
The tax impact on carriers will encompass about 1% to 2% of their total earnings, assuming an annual tax of about 4 basis points.
The state will deposit $100 in a 529 account for any baby born after July 1, to encourage families to start saving for college.
The suit is one of several arising between Edwards and its successor firms and Stifel as a number of Edwards brokers deserted ship in the wake of the 2007 takeover of Edwards by Wachovia Securities LLC.
Janus Capital Group Inc., owner of the Janus, Intech and Perkins funds, missed analysts' estimates by a penny after investors withdrew more money than expected from its quantitative investment unit.
Finra arbitrators have ordered a securities analyst who claims he was wrongfully fired by Rodman & Renshaw LLC in 2006 for attempting to lower a stock rating to pay the broker-dealer $10.7 million in damages.
Scott Rothstein, the former South Florida lawyer serving 50 years in prison for a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, was ordered by a judge to pay his victims $363 million.
Relative to the low yields of bonds, the stock market is attractively valued, according to Tom Perkins, manager of the $81 million Perkins Large Cap Value Fund Ticker:(JAPIX) and the $12.4 billion Perkins Mid Cap Value Fund Ticker:(JMVAX).
Mark Palmer, a Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. executive, today was named national sales manager at Cetera Financial Group, the broker-dealer network owned by private-equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC.
