A proposal to provide tougher qualification standards for investing in hedge funds and other alternative investments has proved to be so controversial that the Securities and Exchange Commission may have to alter the plan or scrap it altogether.
Two legal decisions this month related to equity index annuities make clear that plaintiffs must attack specific annuity provisions or standardized marketing materials in order to show the “commonality” needed for class action certification.
In a case that married dry-as-dust estate-planning issues with “Dallas”-like squabbling among wealthy family members, a Texas court has decided that King Ranch heir B.K. Johnson had all his faculties when he drew up his last will and that his widow and third wife didn’t manipulate him into excluding his children.
SAN FRANCISCO — A small company is betting that it can turn defined benefit plans into a mainstream product for financial advisers to sell.
NEW YORK — The rich are different, and so are their insurance needs, but many wealthy people may be leaving themselves unprotected, according to personal-lines-property-casualty-insurance specialists.
IRVINE, Calif. — An SEC proposal to change how broker-dealers can invest customer reserve funds has come under attack from a variety of industry interests.
CHICAGO — Financial advisers are crafting new strategies to convince clients to complete their wills and estate plans.
Mutual funds will now be subject to a new rule that prohibits fraud in hedge funds and other private investment pools.
Barclays has added Aaron Tan as managing director and head of Hong Kong coverage, Finance Asia reported.
New York Life Insurance Co. has promoted Gary Scofield to senior vice president and chief actuary.
Conseco Inc. will consolidate operations and sell properties as part of a plan to pare down expenses.
Morgan Stanley has bought Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co.'s Seoul headquarters for $1.04 billion, published reports said.
In an unexpected move, Lincoln Financial Group announced that its chairman and CEO will retire on Sept. 1.
The cost of fighting money laundering has risen 58% since 2004, according to a survey by KPMG.
Now that the Senate has disposed of the immigration reform bill, perhaps it and the House of Representatives can turn their attention to a matter at least as serious: reform or repeal of the alternative minimum tax — preferably repeal.
NEW YORK — Dual broker-adviser registration may become more common as brokerage firms shift from fee-based brokerage accounts, but the adviser’s new role could lead to more litigation, according to lawyers.
NEW YORK — Advisers may want to think twice before loading a new retiree’s portfolio with equity investments, according to a retirement software developer.
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission is setting up an advisory committee on financial reporting to scrutinize the high number of financial restatements by public companies, according to Robert Pozen, who will head the committee.
