The House Financial Services Committee is considering a package of legislation to tighten regulation of the municipal bond market.
After being written off as an asset class just a few short months ago, emerging-markets equities are back.
In the wake of the stock market downturn, more financial advisers are turning to technical analysis.
Assets in broker-managed ac-counts reached the levels of traditional wrap fee accounts in the first quarter of the year, a milestone in the fee-based business at major brokerage firms.
Financial advisers are at risk of getting caught in a classic “bond bear trap” — reaching for yield in a low-interest-rate environment, then getting hammered when rates ultimately rise.
State-level financial regulators today urged Congress to set up a group of regulatory agencies to deal with systemic risk.
In another sign that industry-affiliated arbitrators may be on their way out, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. wants to stop using industry panelists in most cases involving a registered representative and a brokerage firm.
The market's recent rally is likely to be short-lived.
Many financial advisers are suffering a crisis of confidence that is hurting their relationships with existing clients and hampering their abilities to recruit new clients.
Some industry observers are questioning whether an endowment model of investing — as popularized by the Yale University endowment fund — should be used for individual investors.
