A Pew Research Center report released today says the U.S...
The trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff's bankrupt brokerage won court
approval to make a second customer payment that may reach $2...
Assets tied to U.S. housing are attractive with the real-estate market
poised to reach a bottom, says a Pimco manager.
Allianz SE, owner of the world's second-biggest asset management
business after BlackRock Inc., is trimming targets for that unit as
Europe's debt crisis crimps investment returns.
by Maureen Nevin Duffy
New mutual funds shun cap-weightings in favor of GDP weightings, the theory being that holdings should generate revenues for funding growth
and paying down debt.
by Mike Byrnes
Financial advisors at LPL Financial's Focus12 conference who have
started to use social media received advice on how to take it to the
next level.
Sales of existing homes climbed in July from an eight-month low, adding to signs U.S. housing may pick up in the second half.
by
Karen DeMasters
Due to pervasive financial abuse of America's senior citizens, the
CFP Board of Standards is urging standards for financial planning designations -- which now number 140.
U.S. accounting watchdogs said a review of 10 brokerage auditors found
they all performed deficient work, and some failed to take required
steps to help ensure investors' funds are safeguarded.
Republican platform drafters refused to put their party on record for preserving the mortgage-interest deduction.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Pershing is building out the estate planning services it offers
broker-dealers and registered investment advisors by adding two major
players to its trust platform.
Prudential Financial and AIG grabbed a
bigger share of the U.S. variable-annuity market as MetLife Inc.
reduced sales of the equity-linked retirement products.
Returns on catastrophe bonds are exceeding those on corporate debt by
the most in nine months as investors facing record-low yields chase
returns detached from economic performance.
Christopher Donahue, CEO of Federated Investors
Inc., is sticking up for the family business when he defends
money-market funds.
Wall Street, reeling from public outrage
and increased regulation, is proving incapable of finding a champion to
replace sidelined JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie
Dimon.
Commodities are poised to enter a bull market led by surging grain futures amid the worst U.S. drought in half a century.
by
Evan Simonoff
The FPA has named Lauren Schadle to succeed
Marv Tuttle as its CEO and executive director on October 3, immediately
following its annual FPA Experience conference in San Antonio.
by
Ray Fazzi
Advisor Ron Rhoades said he has stepped down as chairman-elect of Napfa
because he was late in filing registration papers with the Florida
Division of Securities.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
RIA Frank Martin has managed money for more
than 40 years and was able to avoid big losses from the dot-com bust of
2000 and the financial crisis of 2008...
