The self-regulator saw a sharp turnaround after taking a $45.9 million loss in 2019. The results were driven, in large part, by the revenue generated from increased trading activity.
Small businesses are being told to sign up for coverage. Fintech firms and established 401(k) providers see an opportunity to showcase their services as an alternative to state-run programs before what is essentially a brand-new market.
U.S. sustainable funds attracted more than $50 billion in capital last year, doubling from 2019.
Retirement Planning Specialists, a firm in the Philadelphia suburb of Willow Grove, has four advisers.
The board overseeing the Thrift Savings Plan, which has 6 million active and retired participants, says that it subscribes to a strict indexing discipline.
In 2016, Finra launched a targeted examination of UIT sales, discounts and rollovers across the brokerage industry, and a number of firms have incurred penalties and fines in its aftermath.
A spotlight on how one boutique asset manager is adding alpha as the number of publicly listed companies dwindles.
After climate rule changes, expect similar disclosure requirements on other ESG issues like biodiversity, workforce diversity and political spending.
Fidelity launched a new brokerage account in May for 13- to 17-year-olds, but the larger focus should be on education, not access to the markets.
Bad cultures can be clearly identified by things like high employee turnover, an obvious lack of morale or client retention.
The ability to invest in cryptos ranked dead last among features that participants want to see in their retirement plans, Morningstar survey finds.
Last year, account holders moved an estimated $623 billion from their 401(k)s to IRAs, up from $565 billion in 2019, a 10% increase, according to a report Tuesday from Limra’s Secure Retirement Institute.
Bill Wade and Reid Berry are opening an office in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Amplify DTOX fund tracks an index of 78 companies that derive at least 80% of revenues from one of five cleaner living market segments.
Instead of engaging in a debate over which 30-year-old approach to risk management is better, advisers can jump to the best of current institutional risk management approaches, adapted to the unique challenges presented by working with individual investors.
Northwestern Mutual survey finds most respondents' financial planning is focused on the short term, with only 14% actively planning more than five years out.
Women are still more generous than men and became even more interested in philanthropy in 2020.
Lack of diversity is a problem for the financial service industry, and especially the DC market, where most advisers are white males. That is also true of industry executives, most of whom went to college in the Northeast or were trained by a provider there.
Savers are ditching the formula that's anchored retirement plans for more than half a century, after already low interest rates hit rock bottom during the pandemic.
Women Adviser Summit panelists say flexible work environments and instilling a sense of belonging are key.
