TIAA-CREF aims to add to its $2 billion holdings of farmland to help diversify its portfolio and hedge against inflation, said the pension-fund manager's director for private-equity investments in agriculture.
Latest to leave embattled firm since the federal government's bailout of American International Group Inc., the broker-dealer network's parent company
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Thousands of people in New York voiced their distaste for the financial services industry, with Goldman Sachs execs serving as the latest target for their outrage.
Stocks are trading in a narrow range after the government said the economy grew at a slightly slower pace than expected in the first quarter.
While investors and advisers have crowed about the density of variable annuity prospectuses, officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission say that the products are generally too complex to describe in abbreviated set of disclosures.
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A swarm of state and federal regulators made a bee line for Morgan Keegan on Wednesday. The reason? Alleged wrong-doing in the sales and marketing of mortgage-backed bond funds
Retail investors are flocking to new funds from BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and others that offer some protection against rising rates.
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MF Global Holdings Ltd. missed a shot in January 2008 to stop the broker whose unauthorized trades a month later cost the firm $141 million and helped start a slide that wiped out $3 billion in shareholder equity.
Signs of an improving domestic economy are helping stocks for the second straight day.
A lawsuit filed by Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown against a team of top-producing brokers who are leaving the firm for Barclays Wealth Management has been settled.
Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has unofficially declared Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to be the big bad wolf of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, what should investors do?
The world is in the middle of a “multiyear resetting of the global economy,” Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO CEO and co-chief investment officer, said at a news conference in London today.
Regional brokerage firms and some independent investment advisers have been making hay hiring hundreds of discontented wirehouse brokers.
Stifel Financial Corp., which has been expanding its Stifel Nicolaus & Co. retail- brokerage business aggressively, is about to make a push into serving registered investment advisers.
Stocks are retreating from their highs after Spain became the latest European country to have its debt ratings cut by Standard & Poor's.
