Morgan Stanley Smith Barney aims to increase the number of its small-business wealth management clients through an exclusive referral agreement it announced today.
The combined firm will operate under the Buckingham banner.
Barclays Plc recruited a team for its wealth and investment management division from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney that includes former New York Jets wide receiver Wayne Chrebet.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed above the highest closing level since 2008 as the European Central Bank announced specifics of its bond-buying plan.
Treasuries extended losses after a private report showed U.S. companies added more jobs in August than economists forecast.
Texas public pensions say they wouldn't close their funding gap by switching to defined contribution plans.
In an age of countless Ponzi schemes, investors are trying to sleuth out their brokers' backgrounds, but not every resource offers a full picture of firms' wrongdoing.
U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, at the Democratic National Convention, intensified her criticism of Wall Street CEOs.
Nobel Prize-winning economist William F. Sharpe has been awarded the 2012 Lillywhite Award from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
The SEC today charged three South Florida men with orchestrating a $27.5 million scheme in which they stole investors' money to help fund their own lavish lifestyle.
A perennial question financial advisors ask themselves is whether or not they should ask their current clients for referrals.
Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pimco, said private credit-market debt is too high and the age of credit expansion that led to "double-digit" returns is over.
A financial advisor can help clients avoid common mistakes in deciding when to collect Social Security.
Financial advisors are being put in a very difficult position when clients are faced with buyout offers on their variable annuities that have guaranteed payments, experts in the field say.
Sports agent Drew Rosenhaus and financial advisor Jeff Rubin are under investigation by The National Football Players Association for potentially violating NFL financial conduct policies,...
Edward P Owens, CFA, is stepping down as portfolio manager of Vanguard Health Care Fund effective Dec. 31.
The continuing national economic slump is having a toll on Americans' psyches, with one in four polled considering themselves as poor, according to a new survey.
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The Hartford has signed a definitive agreement to sell its retirement plans business to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for $400 million.