The stock market's rally has reawakened the initial public offerings market, with five IPOs being launched yesterday and at least three more scheduled for this week.
The nation's economic recovery has just begun and "we still have work to do," a senior Treasury official told Congress on Thursday, the strongest signal yet that the administration is prepared to extend its $700 billion bank bailout fund.
A former broker at Prudential Securities Inc. charged with fraudulently trading mutual funds for millions of dollars in commissions has been sentenced to two months in a halfway house.
Retirees and pre-retirees remain skeptical about the likelihood of recovering their portfolio losses, and they are keeping financial advisers at arms' length, according to an informal survey.
A North Carolina insurance agent and former registered representative was arrested yesterday and faces embezzlement charges for allegedly duping a 90-year-old woman into signing away her annuities.
With the U.S. economy on the mend, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it is slowing the pace of a program to lower mortgage rates and prop up the housing market.
A financial adviser from northwest Arkansas said he's seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, joining an increasingly crowded field of GOP hopefuls.
Stocks rose in morning trading Tuesday as commodities rebounded ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting on interest rates.
President Barack Obama, squeezing in a pitch for his domestic agenda, is promoting his administration's promises of innovation at a New York community college before weeklong meetings on international priorities.
Insurance broker and consulting firm Marsh & McLennan Cos. said Monday that it will extend President and CEO Brian Duperreault's contract an additional three years to Jan. 29, 2014.
The performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average —up 12% for all of 2009—and other broad market indicators, are evidence that the recession is over and normalcy is returning to both the stock market and the economy, according to some industry experts.
Client-centric marketing tactics and a more emotional approach are key to financial advisers' efforts to distinguish themselves from their competition, a tele-savvy adviser said today at the Insured Retirement Institute's annual conference in Boston.
Another key executive with the ING Advisors Network Inc. has stepped down, as the network's parent, ING Groep NV, continues an evaluation of the broker-dealers that could lead to their sale.
The rise in the price of gold is only getting started, according to Thomas Winmill, president of Midas Management Corp. and manager of the $115 million Midas Fund.
The Insured Retirement Institute today chose James A. Shepherdson, executive vice president of Axa Equitable, as the group's chairman.
Al Frank Asset Management Inc. today announced it has acquired Innealta Portfolio Advisors LLC, a quantitative asset management firm specializing in the creation and tactical management of exchange-traded fund portfolios.
