The Labor Department is investigating Geller Group LLC, a retirement plan administrator and registered investment adviser, for failing to disclose alleged ties to an accounting firm it recommended as an auditor and for other possible violations, according to former employees and others close to the investigation.
TCW Asset Management has given investors in its Special Mortgage Credits Fund I and II until Feb. 19 to decide whether to liquidate their investments.
Listed as a "monument to unparalleled success," the largest home for sale in the United States comes with plenty of space but no carpet, tiles or interior walls. It's up to the future buyer to finish it.
Maliz Beams, one of the highest- ranking women at TIAA-CREF, is leaving as part of a management reshuffling at the firm, which oversees $426 billion in retirement assets.
Kenneth Ira Starr, an investment adviser with a roster of celebrity clients, was charged by the U.S. government on May 27 with orchestrating a $30 million fraud. (An alleged fraud that feds would eventually bump up to an estimated $59 million.)
Despite the huge equity market rally since the March 2009 lows, U.S. stocks remain undervalued relative to long-term trends, according to Jeremy Siegel.
After more than three weeks of debate, the Senate approved a comprehensive overhaul of financial regulations on Thursday night without acting on fiduciary standards amendments.
Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. announced today that it has repaid the remaining $104 million in TARP money it owes the U.S. Treasury.
The May 6 "flash crash" revealed an area of the financial markets that isn't touched by the financial-reform bills in Congress but nevertheless must be examined.
Here we are, in the midst of a trend to “breakaway Advisors,” where more and more Advisors are thinking of places to work outside of the big 4 firms.
Most 401(k) plan participants need investment advice.
Wealth management firm Aspiriant LLC said today it has agreed to buy Deloitte Investment Advisors LLC, a unit of accounting firm Deloitte LLP with 450 clients and $2.9 billion in assets under advisement.
All but 7% of the nation's 20,000 wealth management firms won't extract significant value from their business when their owners retire, because most do not have a sustainable profit model, a new report contends.
Global millionaires' ranks increased by about 17 percent in 2009, with the Asia-Pacific region posting a 26 percent gain, according to a report by Capgemini SA and Merrill Lynch & Co.
The global millionaires' club expanded by about 14 percent in 2009, according to the Boston Consulting Group, with the number of millionaire households increasing to 11.2 million. The majority of these wealthy households reside in these five countries.
The portfolios of the wealthy have almost recovered from the financial crisis, but that doesn't mean they trust their financial institutions anymore, BCG said today in a report.
The global millionaires' club expanded by about 14 percent in 2009 with Singapore leading the way, The Boston Consulting Group said.
Who are the largest RIAs? And which firms grew the most in the last quarter? This RIA rundown outlines the movers and shakers in the advisory industry.
It takes about four months and about $50,000 to get a fund to market
