A bill introduced last week in the California Legislature would require money manager placement agents to register as lobbyists and regulate their compensation.
Carlos Slim, the world's richest man according to Forbes magazine, has acquired shares of BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager, expanding his U.S. holdings.
Donald Anthony Young also diverted clients' cash into a horse farm, authorities say
Info from 24,000 of its Swiss bank accounts was stolen between 2006 and 2007, HSBC reported today. Tax authorities in foreign countries can expect to be hearing from the data bandits -- if they haven't already, that is.
Their parents are getting all the attention, but 30-somethings want (and need) financial advice. Now
With the life insurance industry recovering from a year of falling revenue, as sales of variable annuities, universal- and variable-universal life insurance all off, carriers are gearing up to make some changes.
The Minnesota Commerce Department claims that the insurer sold 541 contracts worth $28 million that weren't OK'd by state
The senior executive vice president in charge of Wells Fargo & Co.'s Wealth Management, Brokerage and Retirement Services Division made the bulk of his pay from an option award and a retention bonus.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., is expected to introduce new financial reform legislation this week that excludes applying a fiduciary standard to brokers offering investment advice.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's expected move to regulate placement agents as broker-dealers instead of prohibiting investment advisers from using them won't curb influence-peddling, some critics say.
Everybody dies. Not everybody plans for it, though. That's where financial advisers come in. Few professionals are as well positioned to offer guidance on this sensitive topic — or to steer clients to specialists such as estate planners or attorneys. Indeed, financial advisers, who meet with clients on a regular basis, sometimes for years, can play a pivotal role in getting them to get their affairs in order long before they face their own mortality.
Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, who brokered the investment bank's controversial sale to Bank of America, is taking over as chairman and CEO of CIT Group as the commercial lender continues to restructure its business following a brief stay in bankruptcy protection last year.
The aging of America is going to hit equity markets like a tsunami moving at a glacial pace.
Steep rate hikes are coming for long-term-care policies written a decade ago.
Even as long-term care costs skyrocket, many Americans have unrealistic plans for how they expect to pay for those services, according to a new survey from the Life Foundation.
Philipp Hensler, the top U.S. executive for New York-based DWS Investments, has left the firm.
Banking giant Wachovia Corp. will pay $160 million to settle a federal investigation into laundering of illegal drug profits through Mexican exchange houses in the largest case of its kind ever brought against a U.S. bank, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Much of the industry's underperformance in 2009 can be attributed to uncertainty about potential health care reform legislation. Now? Things are looking up
