Industry observers are cheering the news that the hugely popular American Funds group stood up to regulators — and won.
Competition is heating up in the normally sedate world of portfolio-re-balancing software.
Financial advisory firms have evolved from home-based businesses, to one-man shows, to full-fledged, thriving enterprises with multiple professionals and sometimes many staff members.
Investors have gotten used to associating the Asian equity markets with growth, but dividends are often an overlooked and potentially rewarding opportunity.
the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund (YYY) will begin trading on the American Stock Exchange on March 18.
Farm product sales jumped 16.1% for January and 73.3% from the year-ago period.
The big hit clean-energy stocks have taken this year is just an expected correction, not the end of a fad, green-investing advocates say.
The SEC's proposed changes to Regulation S-P may slow down recruiting of independent reps, but executives with independent broker-dealers nonetheless are relieved that the agency has given some potential guidance on the issue.
Blackstone Group today announced fourth-quarter losses of $170 million, compared with a profit of $1.18 billion one year earlier.
If hedge funds are becoming too commonplace, Michael Goldston offers jaded high-net-worth investors an alternative investment whose distinctiveness will knock their socks off and keep their feet toasty at the same time.
