The Federal Reserve Board's low-interest-rate policy has hurt retirees, which was anticipated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> in an editorial last year.
The webcast “Estate Planning 2011: The New Rules for Advisers” was held Jan. 18 in New York
The peak of the corporate proxy season is at hand, and advisers should remind their stock-owning clients to vote their proxies
Republican lawmakers should stand down in their efforts to delay and obstruct the shaping of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which if properly implemented will go down in history as the most significant and innovative change to come out of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law
It is time for the Securities and Exchange Commission to set an even more rigorous net-worth standard for “accredited” investors than the requirements set forth in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law
Mary Schapiro, chairman of the SEC, cannot be surprised that she is taking heat from Congress for hiring a general counsel who played a role in determining how victims of Bernard Madoff would be compensated, even though he had benefited from an investment with the notorious financial criminal
The SEC deserves a pat on the back for eliminating the requirement that a securities industry representative sit on Finra arbitration panels. Still, its obligation to assure that investors get a fair shake in disputes with their brokers remains unfulfilled.
The merger of the New York Stock Exchange and the Deutsche Boerse bodes ill for individual investors, not because ownership and the headquarters of the combined exchange will be outside the United States, but because of the trends that produced it
