September 07, 2010 Disclosure and transparency, credit ratings, and internal controls top the SEC's agenda for a series of nationwide field hearings to examine the municipal securities markets, starting in San Francisco on September 21....
September 07, 2010 As Congress gears up to starts its fall session, Putnam Investments is wasting little time in pressing lawmakers to pass auto-IRA legislation. ...
September 07, 2010 Aegon, an international insurer, pension and investment company, announced Tuesday, September 7, that Marc Van Weede, executive vice president, will be the Global Head of Sustainability. ...
September 07, 2010 The Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles is preparing to forgo public funding in the face of California’s budget crisis....
September 07, 2010 As part of its efforts to modernize, the Securities Investor Protection Corp. will hold its first-ever online forum for investors who want to speak out about the SIPC’s operations at 8 p.m. EDT on September 14 at www.SIPCModernization.org....
September 07, 2010 Neal Greenberg, an investment advisor based in Boulder, Colorado, was charged Tuesday, September 7, with fraud and the breach of fiduciary duty by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ...
September 03, 2010 High performance and low assets yield good opportunity....
September 03, 2010 SMA offers organizations a highly customizable faith-based investment option....
September 03, 2010 Boomers have "surprisingly stable" view about their retirements...
September 02, 2010 Study found that Vanguard ETFs capture about $5.5 million in assets per advisor vs. $5.7 million for iShares. ...
September 01, 2010 What to consider when exploring emerging markets debt....
September 01, 2010 Sales in Q3 likely to increase 10% over Q2, Beacon Research predicts....
September 01, 2010 Investors risk serious losses for holding periods longer than a day or two....
August 31, 2010 ETFs swap market cap for sales, earnings weightings....
August 30, 2010 Report is called ‘Dynamic Allocation Decisions in the Presence of Funding Ratio Constraints.’...
August 30, 2010 With reports on jobs, services, and manufacturing in the wings for the month of September, investors are bracing for dark skies ahead....
August 30, 2010 Long-term investors and those seeking safety not found these days in the stock markets have been fleeing to bonds, giving rise to speculation about a “bond bubble.”...
August 30, 2010 American consumers earned more in July, but they also spent more and saved less, according to the Commerce Department....
August 30, 2010 Investment Advisor announced Monday, August 30, the results of its 20th annual readers’ poll for the 2010 Broker/Dealers of the Year....
August 30, 2010 Profits and margins at BofA-Merrill are well ahead of those at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, despite MSSB’s larger advisor force. ...
August 30, 2010 The Trends in Life Insurance Ownership study, conducted every six years by the life insurance lobbying and marketing organization, found that only 44% of U.S. households have individual life insurance. ...
August 30, 2010 Wilmington Trust Corp. has named veteran wealth advisor Lawrence Gore president of the New York office of Wilmington Trust FSB, the firm announced Monday....
August 27, 2010 Africa’s key market returned over 13 % in past decade....
August 27, 2010 A little-known portfolio tool can help advisors reduce risk for their clients in severe market slides, financial experts say....
August 27, 2010 Financial experts share several ways advisors can use a little-known portfolio tool to lower risk for their clients and improve diversification....
August 27, 2010 Raymond James Financial says that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common shares of $0.11 per share, payable October 15, 2010, to shareholders of record on October 1, 2010. ...
August 27, 2010 Harris has launched the Harris Charitable Fund Program under the sponsorship and management of National Philanthropic Trust, a national public charity and major donor-advised fund provider, the two organizations announced Tuesday....
August 26, 2010 August marks the 75th birthday for the New Deal stalwart, but is it a happy one?...
August 26, 2010 Initial jobless claims fell 31,000 to 473,000 for the week ended August 21, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday, August 26. The sharp drop, the second biggest decline of 2010, followed three weeks of increased unemployment claims....
August 26, 2010 Alerian, a Dallas-based research group, launched the Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) on Wednesday....
August 25, 2010 Sales of new single-family houses in July fell 12.4% to 276,600, the slowest pace of sales on record since 1963. July durable goods orders rose slightly, but the increase came mainly from airplane orders....
August 25, 2010 Variable annuity sales posted record highs in the second quarter of 2010, the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) reported Wednesday....
August 25, 2010 While market and world events have caused independent investment advisors to maintain a somewhat conservative outlook, there are still a few bright spots in their forecast, according to a Charles Schwab survey of independent RIAs released Wednesday....
August 25, 2010 The global asset management business rebounded strongly in 2009....
August 24, 2010 Private placement notes in default; firm alleged to have withheld ‘material information.’...
August 24, 2010 Existing-home sales dropped sharply in July to historic lows after the home buyer tax credit expired, but home prices continued to gain, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported Tuesday, August 24....
August 24, 2010 Senators express ‘deep’ concern about limiting disclosures to only mutual funds....
August 24, 2010 The Japanese Yen surged to a fresh 15-year high against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday after the Japanese government failed to say it would take steps to curb the currency's strength amid growing concerns about the pace of the recovery. ...
August 24, 2010 Callan Associates hired Morgan Dempsey Capital Management, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Friday, August 20, as a sub-advisor for its Diversified Alpha Small Cap Equity Fund....
August 24, 2010 John Hancock Retirement Plan Services announced Tuesday that they will offer two suites of lifecycle funds designed to meet individuals' varied retirement needs. ...
August 24, 2010 As many parents dip into retirement savings to pay for their children’s college educations, the parents who work with a financial advisor are saving more for college costs, Fidelity Investments reported in a study released Tuesday, August 24....
August 24, 2010 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney recently recruited a team of financial advisers from Wells Fargo Advisors, which followed a fine by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) over disclosure rules....
August 23, 2010 Investors are pulling out of stock mutual funds in droves, though foreign stock funds are still attracting cash. ...
August 23, 2010 An Opportunity Index to help asset managers focus their distribution efforts is part of Cerulli Associates new study, “Managed Accounts: Asset Manager Distribution Roadmap,” the firm announced on Friday, August 13....
August 23, 2010 Thomas Hoenig, president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, that the long-term health of community banks is being strangled by the market’s, and the government’s, policy of “too big to fail” toward big banks....
August 23, 2010 Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is expected to roll out the DFA Commodity Strategy by year-end, according to a report by Morningstar Advisor on Monday, August 23. ...
August 23, 2010 Columbia Management Group says that it has proposed 62 fund mergers as part of the sale of its long-term asset-management business to RiverSource Investments, which is owned by Ameriprise Financial. ...
August 23, 2010 An analysis of data provided by the Investment Company Institute, a mutual fund industry trade organization, show bond fund asset inflows have outpaced equity fund inflows for 30 straight months through June....
August 23, 2010 AIG announced that it has repaid almost $4 billion to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. International Lease Finance Corporation, a subsidiary of AIG, sold $4.4 billion in secured and unsecured notes to make the $3.9 billion payment. ...
August 23, 2010 Common stocks and municipal bonds have had the highest long-term “real” returns for taxable accounts over the last 30 years, according to an annual study by Thornburg Investment Management (Thornburg) released Monday, August 23....
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