Courts and regulators will evaluate your effectiveness as an investment adviser against a process standard — as opposed to a performance standard.
BOSTON — Labor activists are using a Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring mutual fund proxy disclosure to ratchet up the pressure on executive compensation that they consider excessive.
IRVINE, Calif. — Smith Barney reps are supportive of the cost-cutting plan New York-based Citigroup Inc. announced April 11.
WASHINGTON — Financial advice professionals who routinely log 60-hour workweeks may be spinning their wheels, a new report suggests.
WASHINGTON — New default options that the Department of Labor will likely approve for 401(k) investments will have a “significant” impact on the way mutual fund assets are invested, independent fund directors were told at a conference here April 12.
The mutual fund giant said that it has started offering 401(k) plans an online platform that participants can use to purchase annuities.
Charles Schwab Corp. has reduced account opening minimums for all of its main brokerage and retirement accounts and eliminated minimums for many others, the firm announced today.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive T. Timothy Ryan has withdrawn himself from consideration to be the Department of the Treasury's top international policy adviser, according to published reports.
Another top executive has walked away from the Pacific Select Group LLC, the soon-to-be-dismantled broker-dealer network of Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif.
Fidelity Investments’ vice chairman and chief operating officer, Robert Reynolds, announced his retirement today and Ellyn McColgan was named president of distribution and operations.
Bank of America Corp. recorded a 5% increase in first quarter net income, as fee income rose despite a challenging credit environment.
E*Trade Financial reported a 19% increase in first quarter profit on growth in client assets.
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.'s first-quarter profits increased 31% from a year ago, when it took a charge related to its acquisition of BlackRock Inc. the company reported today.
BlackRock Inc. posted a whopping 176% jump in first-quarter net income as demand for its products has improved following its merger with Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.'s asset management unit last year.
Less than a week after Citigroup Inc. agreed to purchase Old Lane LP and tap Vikram Pandit, its founder, to become head of Citi Alternative Investments, Citigroup’s Dean Barr has resigned as head of liquid markets.
Amvescap PLC chief executive Martin Flanagan's 2006 pay package was less than half of his compensation in 2005, according to a Financial News report.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has appointed Kunho Cho as its first Asia-based vice chairman, according to published reports.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a 55% increase in quarterly earnings, energized by gains in its investment banking and asset management businesses.
Knight Capital Group Inc. posted a 35% drop in first-quarter profits on lower revenues and a loss from discontinued operations, falling short of analysts estimates.
Morgan Stanley has hired Blair Pickerell as its managing director and head of investment management for Asia, according to published reports.
