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YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUN 11, 2014
CFA exam pass rate increases to 43%

A higher percentage of hopefuls for the chartered financial analyst designation passed the first level of their three-part exam in December.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUN 06, 2014
Mary Jo White defies political meddling in first year at SEC

Mary Jo White took over the Securities and Exchange Commission with a back-to-basics plan to toughen enforcement and clear a backlog of regulations aimed at the last financial crisis.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUN 04, 2014
Getting decked out in camo to help tell a succession planning story

Father and son adviser team in Montana feature in new season of <i>InvestmentNews'</i> Practice Makeover.

NEWS WIREHOUSES JUN 04, 2014
Morgan Stanley CFO calls too few women leading U.S. companies an 'embarrassment'

Morgan Stanley chief financial officer Ruth Porat called the low number of women running U.S. companies an &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; that shows the need for new laws.

NEWS WIREHOUSES JUN 04, 2014
Krawcheck: Women on Wall Street have 'gone backwards'

Sallie Krawcheck, the former Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. executive, said women lost ground on Wall Street after the financial crisis because executives and boards hired people who looked like them.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 03, 2014
Retail clients drive deposits, profits at T. Rowe

Money manager relies on individuals saving for retirement, rising stock prices to offset institutional withdrawals.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 29, 2014
BlackRock's Fink: Housing more unsound now than pre-crisis

BlackRock Inc.'s chief executive Laurence D. Fink said the U.S. housing market is &#8220;structurally more unsound&#8221; today than before the financial crisis because it depends more on government-backed mortgage companies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 29, 2014
BlackRock's Fink urges CEOs to focus capital on long-term growth

BlackRock Inc. CEO Laurence D. Fink, whose firm is the largest shareholder in companies from Apple Inc. to JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., is repeating his call to chief executive officers to engage with shareholders and be more transparent about balance-sheet decisions.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH MAY 28, 2014
Rout in social media stocks crushing ETFs

The falloff in social media stocks is burning investors who piled into one of last year's most popular exchange-traded funds.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 27, 2014
Gross's top fund suffered $3.1 billion in losses in April

Bill Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund sustained its 12th straight month of withdrawals in April as the world's largest bond fund continues to trail its peers.