While The PNC Financial Services Group's announcement last week that it is set to acquire Albridge Solutions Inc. was applauded by many in the financial advisory industry, some raised concerns that the planned merger might prove less than a panacea.
Connecticut is the top-scoring state, and Los Alamos, N.M., is the top-scoring community, for personal-savings and investing behavior, according to A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.
The Section 529 college savings plan industry is divided over how to raise public awareness of the product.
While many financial advisers continue to criticize and shun equity index annuities, insurance companies that sell the product are trying to improve its tarnished image by focusing on education.
Advisers affiliated with Schwab Institutional are growing at a rate that outpaces the industry average, Charles Goldman, executive vice president, said last Monday in Las Vegas at the custodian's annual conference, IMPACT 2007.
Federal commodities regulators want new powers to police energy derivative trades of the sort that contributed to the collapse of Greenwich, Conn.-based Amaranth Advisors LLC last year.
A unified managed account platform that gives advisers greater latitude in customizing portfolios for clients is being introduced today by ADVISORport, the UMA platform service of Wilmington, Del.-based PFPC Worldwide Inc.
With a strong market capitalization and bright management team in place, the stock of Wridgways Australia Ltd., a trucking and courier company, looked quite attractive to Steven Rogé , co-portfolio manager of the Rogé Partners Fund.
In about a decade, when a significant number of baby boomers have retired, there will be a new market for financial advice.
The mutual fund industry and independent 401(k) service providers squared off last week before the House Ways and Means Committee over whether fees for various 401(k) services should be broken down in disclosures to employers.
