Running a successful family financial advisory business is much tougher than the smiling portraits posted on many firms' websites would lead a client or prospect to believe.
Some dividends aren't dividends at all. Sometimes they are a distribution known as a return of capital, which are actually returns <i>of </i>an investment instead of returns <i>on </i>an investment.
President Obama reached his much-ballyhooed 100-day milestone last week, but most financial advisers were in no mood to celebrate.
The two largest organizations of financial planners are looking at ways to give members discounts on several kinds of insurance.
The swine flu epidemic has hurt certain segments of the market, such as travel stocks, while others, such as shares of pharmaceutical companies, may get a short-term lift, according to observers.
Leaders of Fidelity Investments' adviser and broker-dealer clearing businesses pointed fingers at themselves and at clients last week for retreating from customer contact during the most chaotic periods of their business careers and hinted at changes to come in several key services.
Tom Turpin, chief executive of Old Mutual Asset Management, has left the firm just months after the firm's parent, Old Mutual PLC, said that it planned a partial initial public offering of the business.
American International Group Inc. is considering closing down parts of its mortgage insurance unit following a failure to offload it, Bloomberg reported.
President Obama reached his much-ballyhooed 100-day milestone last week, but most financial advisers were in no mood to celebrate.
More than 100 investment managers and their placement agents have been subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo as part of his two-year investigation into alleged pay-to-play schemes involving the $122 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, Albany, Mr. Cuomo announced today.
Morningstar Inc. yesterday announced first-quarter earnings of $25 million, or $0.51 a diluted share, up from $23.1 million, or $0.47 a share, a year earlier.
U.S. manufacturing activity contracted at a slower-than expected pace in April, raising hopes that the steep plunge that began last fall may be moderating. The performance was driven by a rise in new orders.
While new assets heading into The Charles Schwab Corp.'s adviser business slowed in the first quarter, executives for the San Francisco-based company noted that they've had contact with hundreds of advisers — with billions in assets — who are considering going independent.
Meanwhile, consumer spending fell more than expected in March while personal savings rose, fresh evidence that the economy is still struggling to emerge from the recession.
U.S. consumer spending fell for the first time in three months while income growth slipped for a second straight month, indicating that the economy is still struggling to emerge from the recession.
Online brokerage E-Trade Financial Corp. said today its first-quarter loss grew sharply as it nearly doubled its provision for loan losses from the previous year.
