Investment advisers will be able to visit one website for the annuity-sales training required under a new suitability standard issued by regulators.
Retirement industry leaders today pressed officials from the Labor and Treasury departments to ensure that any future “safe-harbor” rules for annuities in 401(k) plans also include other lifetime-income options.
Wilmington Trust Corp. confirmed today that it has hired Carol Baldwin Moody, the former chief compliance officer at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., as its new chief risk officer.
Robert P. Gehring, a 39-year veteran of the commercial banking industry, has taken over as head of the credit risk unit at Wilmington Trust Corp.
More than 800 financial advisers weighed in on their practices, the economy and regulation in our annual special report.
The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 includes a provision that allows certain 401(k) and 403(b) participants to convert their plan funds to a Roth 401(k) or Roth 403(b) within the plan
A common belief in the financial services industry is that individuals consolidate a large chunk of their assets among fewer providers as they near retirement
UBS AG, Switzerland's biggest bank, will probably report a fourth straight quarterly profit tomorrow and the lowest wealth management redemptions since 2008.
Hernandez evaded paying taxes on $8.8M; advised wealthy clients on -- yep -- taxes and offshore trusts
The world's richest clients often come with “impossible demands,” push margins down and cause internal conflict with investment banking colleagues, said the vice chairman of Barclays Plc's wealth management unit.
The court-appointed trustee seeking to recover billions of dollars lost by jailed financier Bernard Madoff sued three entities Thursday to get back more than $30 million that he said the Madoff family had invested, mostly in oil and gas properties and technology companies.
U.S. citizens and residents with UBS AG accounts are racing the clock to disclose their secret holdings to the Internal Revenue Service after the Swiss Parliament ratified an agreement to surrender the names of 4,450 bank clients, tax lawyers said.
High anxiety abounds as economy, markets stall; detailing the risks of risk-aversion
Defined-contribution managers bounced back a bit by year-end 2009 from the morose markets of 2008 as assets under management rose 19.7%
Chalk up another hard-earned lesson from the financial crisis: Investors in limited partnerships, the structure of choice for most alternative investments, discovered that giving up liquidity in exchange for higher returns wasn't such a good idea after all.
While retirement industry leaders last week pressed officials from the Labor and Treasury departments to make it easier to include annuities in 401(k) plans, many investment firms and advisers said they aren't pinning their hopes on the annuity proposal and are looking for income solutions that don't involve insurance.
Through its recently announced purchase of National Retirement Partners Inc., LPL Investment Holdings Inc. is set to enter the demanding and competitive market for smaller to midsize retirement plans.
Investment advisers and their clients may want to wait before crafting financial strategies to address the tax relief and spending proposals outlined last week by President Barack Obama.
