John H. Sykes, founder and chairman emeritus of Sykes Enterprises Inc., based in Tampa, Fla., will assume the role of chairman of the board of Gunn Allen Holdings Inc.,
Bank of America Corp. said yesterday that it is ready to settle with state and federal regulators over a probe into its marketing of auction rate securities.
The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 6.1% in August, marking the highest level since 2003 and the eighth consecutive month of slashed payrolls, according to the Department of Labor.
Neither Sen. Barack Obama nor Sen. John McCain possesses a solid sense of the economy political commentator Tucker Carlson told attendees of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisers conference today.
Sun Life Financial Inc.’s U.S. division has launched its charitable estate planning campaign to teach advisers and clients about using life insurance for charitable purposes.
American International Group Inc. is reportedly in talks with JPMorgan Chase & Co. to spin off some its subprime assets into a new company, according to The New York Post.
Worries about bank failures and the stability of other financial institutions are all over the news lately.
Ameriprise Financial Inc. has defeated a group of advisers who sought a class action alleging that, because the company recently changed its name, the power of its brand had been diminished.
Overall individual-annuity sales grew 4% during the second quarter, buoyed by a spike in fixed-annuity sales, according to Limra International Inc.
Small-cap companies in the Russell 2000 Index climbed 3.6% during August, turning out a positive return for every sector, according to Russell Investments of Tacoma, Wash.
Two former Credit Suisse brokers were charged today with defrauding their customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of subprime-related auction rate securities.
Facing jail time, a former branch manager for Banc of America Investment Services Inc. and A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. owes two former clients $4.5 million after losing an arbitration claim last month.
Insured losses from Hurricane Gustav were not large enough to affect the creditworthiness of the insurance and reinsurance industries, S&P said.
Ladenburg Thalmann continued its expansion into the independent-contractor B-D industry by snagging two managers from Ameriprise Financial.
Retail ownership of U.S equities is at a record low, according to The Conference Board Inc.
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Selling covered calls is a common strategy employed by many investors to en-hance the return of their equity position.
The market for alternative investments among retail investors may not be as robust as the industry anticipates, according to recent survey conducted by Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc.
Recent regulatory settlements by Citigroup Inc. and other big banks have set the tone for what corporate investors can expect from the auction rate securities mess.
Good information on how to use alternative, hedge-fund-like, retail-oriented investments is hard to come by, according to industry experts, but some asset managers are hoping to change that.
