Stock futures are slightly lower as the dollar strengthens and investors weigh whether the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates sooner than expected.
Stocks and the dollar gained Monday as investors tried to predict when interest rates might start rising.
The House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday unanimously approved a bill that would create a federal insurance office within the Treasury Department.
Although costs are tight for many advisers, these types of client appreciation events remain extremely important — especially following last year's market collapse, which left many clients worried about their financial future.
A MetLife Inc. subsidiary and three other affiliates have been fined a total $1.2 million for alleged failures to ensure supervisors could review brokers' e-mails with the public.
Federal agents are seizing assets from a Florida lawyer suspected of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
Investment adviser Value Line Inc., its CEO and its former compliance chief have agreed to pay about $45 million to settle regulators' allegations the firm charged more than $24 million in bogus commissions on mutual fund trades.
JPMorgan Chase paying more than $700 million to settle SEC charges over Ala. county bonds
The American Council of Life Insurers has elected C. Robert Henrikson, chairman and chief executive of MetLife Inc., as its 2010 chairman.
In the long battle to position themselves as wealth managers, life insurance companies still have to prove to financial advisers that they can do more than sell annuities.
You wouldn't know it from the way most mutual fund companies and insurers are marketing their products today, but retirement income in all its dimensions is going to be the key driver of the financial and investment business for the next two decades at least.
The Charles Schwab Corp. ended its annual conference for independent advisers last week with a flourish and a confession.
The two trustees of Medical Capital Holdings Inc.'s private placements, Wells Fargo & Co. and The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., have been sued by investors seeking class action status.
Fannie Mae CEO Herb Allison is expected to be named by the Obama administration to head the government's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, a published report said.
The Treasury Department’s decision to increase its bailout package to AIG, doesn’t signal a larger effort to aid companies outside the banking sector.
MBIA Inc. said on Monday that its asset management unit will function as a separate operating company, a move that sent shares of the bond insurer higher in midday trading.
A rep formerly affiliated with First Allied Securities Inc. says he will fight SEC charges that he churned client accounts and made unauthorized and unsuitable trades for two institutional clients, resulting in commissions of $14.2 million.
