As soon as he heard that 13-year-old Margaret Hurt was in danger of losing the horse she had been riding since becoming sick with leukemia two years ago, Preston Byers agreed to donate $6,000 to help her buy Hoochie.
Listed as a "monument to unparalleled success," the largest home for sale in the United States comes with plenty of space but no carpet, tiles or interior walls. It's up to the future buyer to finish it.
A small provision buried in both the House and Senate versions of financial-reform legislation is being hailed by some as a modest but important step for the financial planning industry.
High-net-worth investors in the U.S. are more pessimistic about the economic recovery than wealthy individuals in many other nations, according to survey released today by Barclays Wealth.
Credit-default swaps broker Phoenix Partners Group and brokers who worked at four other firms including Tullett Liberty Inc. and Creditex Group Inc. will pay $4.3 million to settle claims that they attempted to fix fees.
Kenneth I. Starr replied “not that much” to an investigator who accused him of stealing $30 million, a prosecutor said in court -- a statement the government said it may try to use against the accused investment adviser.
The uncertain economy is compounding a long-term problem in the brokerage business: its shrinkage.
James Flynn, Rance Hillier and Merritt Zahner will work out of the Madison, Conn. offices of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
The government said Friday it obtained a court order to halt an alleged $34 million Ponzi scheme targeting federal employees and law enforcement agents nationwide with promises of safe investments in a nonexistent bond fund.
Frank DiPascali Jr., who pleaded guilty to helping Bernard L. Madoff carry out history's biggest Ponzi scheme, was released on bail.
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Federal regulators on Monday filed civil fraud charges against an investment adviser and his firm in connection with complex securities tied to mortgages during the housing market bust.
Group of 20 finance chiefs signaled they will delay introducing new rules aimed at forcing banks to raise the quality and quantity of capital they hold to buffer against financial crisis.
The fate of a universal fiduciary standard for brokers and financial advisers hinges on the outcome of House-Senate negotiations over the most dramatic overhaul of financial regulations since the 1930s.
Two people familiar with the probe into Bernard Madoff's massive financial fraud say at least two former employees will face charges in the coming weeks.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority were accused of being liable for losses in a Luxembourg fund tied to New York money manager Bernard Madoff.
President Barack Obama plans to announce a new fee Thursday on the country's biggest financial firms to recover up to $120 billion in taxpayers' money used to prop up corporations during the economic crisis, a senior administration official said.
Maliz Beams, one of the highest- ranking women at TIAA-CREF, is leaving as part of a management reshuffling at the firm, which oversees $426 billion in retirement assets.
