Proposed regulations that would limit the way that financial advisers are compensated for working with retirement plans are forcing broker-dealers to reconsider how their -representatives sell and advise retirement plans.
Discussing long-term health care insurance is difficult but necessary
Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it's normal for clients who suffered huge losses to continue to have difficulties making logical decisions
The value of Warren Buffett's options to buy Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares dropped by $950 million after regulators sued the bank for misleading clients on the sale of securities tied to the subprime mortgage market.
<i>InvestmentNews</i> last month invited a group of people to our office in New York for a frank discussion about retirement.
John Hailer, president and chief executive of the North American operations of Natixis Global Asset Management, fired off a letter to the head of the Employee Benefit Security Administration.
Spectrem Group also found that retirement accounts such as defined-contribution and defined-benefit plans rose 18% to $9.3 trillion in 2009, up from $7.9 trillion in 2008
Ameriprise Financial Inc. Chairman and CEO James M. Cracchiolo saw his total compensation grow 52 percent in 2009 to $18.2 million, largely because he earned a cash incentive after receiving no such award the previous year.
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Broker -- and candidate for the U.S. Senate -- says the latest government plan will further distort the underlying economics of the real estate market
HighTower Advisors LLC has hired another adviser from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC's ranks — despite facing a continuing “lift-out” lawsuit that Morgan Stanley brought against it last month.
HighTower Advisors LLC announced today that it has snapped up another team of advisers, this time from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC.
Move expected to occur during the second quarter, and will affect approximately 50,000 client accounts.
Under pressure from financial advisers who want to act as fiduciaries in 401(k) plans, Fidelity Investments plans to institute level 12(b)-1 mutual fund fees paid to advisers who sell the firm's plans.
Post-recession, the numbers of millionaires climbed to nearly 8 million. That still trails the all-time high of 9.2 million reached in 2007
Legislation allowing defined-contribution-plan participants to convert plan assets to an in-plan Roth account may be passed into law as soon as the end of next month.
