Financial service professionals who provide portfolio management, asset allocation and financial advice should be regulated as investment advisers, six organizations said in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox.
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. today announced that it will buy a nearly $3 billion stake in Resona Holdings Inc., Japan's fourth-largest bank, according to published reports.
Mutual fund company Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. today reported that its first-quarter net income rose 16.7% and that assets under management reached $50 billion for the first time.
Aflac Inc.’s net income increased 10.9% in the first quarter, despite lagging sales in Japan, the Columbus, Ga.-based insurance company reported.
A group of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland today offered over $98 billion for ABN Amro, trumping the $90 billion offer by London-based Barclays PLC announced earlier in the week, according to published reports.
Morgan Stanley’s Global Wealth Management Group has announced it will pay at least $46 million to settle a class action filed by eight current and former female financial advisers and registered trainees.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc. reported a 251% increase in net income during the first quarter on stronger trading volume.
National Planning Holdings Inc., the nation’s seventh largest independent-contractor broker-dealer network, today posted record revenues of more than $135 million during the first quarter, an increase of 13.5% from the same time last year.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. posted a 42% increase in net income during the first quarter, as electronic trading volume grew sharply.
Legg Mason Inc. today said James W. Hirschmann III has decided to relinquish his responsibilities as president and chief operating officer at the Baltimore-based money management firm.
UBS AG today launched a global warming index based on weather futures for 15 U.S. cities that is being traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
JP Morgan Chase & Co. said it has launched JPMorgan Entertainment Advisors to provide financial and strategic advice, services and products to clients in the entertainment and media businesses.
Health savings accounts are more than four times more popular with employers in a swath of Wisconsin than in the United States as a whole
WisdomTree Investments Inc. of New York announced today that Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia, through its subsidiary QCC Insurance Co., has allocated $25 million to WisdomTree’s High Yielding Equity Index.
JP Morgan Chase & Co. has tapped Joe Jiampietro, a former UBS AG managing director in the financial institutions and governments team, making him the latest to leave the Zurich-based bank.
Barclays PLC today announced it would sell Chicago-based LaSalle Bank Corp., a unit of ABN Amro Holding NV, to Bank of America Corp. for more than $21 billion.
NEW YORK — North Dakota last week became the first state to adopt a more stringent statute regulating life settlements, with special emphasis on stranger-originated life insurance.
Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach, who has predicted that China will surpass the U.S. as the world's leading economy, was tapped to become the firm’s chairman of Asia operations.
Instinet Group Inc., a global agency broker, has announced the expansion of its BrokerShare commission sharing arrangement program to include non broker-dealers.
Bear Stearns is planning a large-scale expansion in Europe and Asia, reported the Financial Times.
