The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Alabama Securities Commission announced today that they have charged Aura Financial Services Inc., a Birmingham-based broker-dealer, with churning customer accounts, supervisory failures and other violations.
Online charitable giving provides only a small slice of revenue for charities, but that is changing, according to a survey of 400 non-profit organizations conducted by Convio Inc.
The recent popularity of small-cap mutual funds may be a sign that recession is giving way to recovery.
Some good news for the charitable-giving world: Most donors — 55% — planned to donate the same amount to charities in 2009 as they did last year, according to a recent survey conducted by the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, a charitable donor-advised-fund program established by Fidelity Investments of Boston.
Charitable giving last year experienced its first decline since 1987, the Giving USA Foundation reported today.
U.S. retirement assets were down 22% at the end of 2008, compared with yearend 2007, according to a report released yesterday by the Washington-based Investment Company Institute.
While the majority of small businesses do not think the economy will affect their ability to offer a 401(k) retirement plan, 44% said they may have to reduce or stop matching employee contributions, according to a survey released today by Nationwide Financial Services Inc. of Columbus, Ohio.
Natixis Global Associates, the distribution arm of Natixis Global Asset Management, today announced that it will close the Vaughan Nelson Small Cap Value Fund (NEFJX) to new investors, effective July 31.
Many financial decisions are made around the dinner table rather than a conference table, according to one financial planner and foodie who believes in presenting financial planning concepts in a more digestible way.
While investors are likely to see an end to the recession later this year, the current stock market rally be a harbinger of better times, according to an investment report presented by MFS Investment Management of Boston yesterday.
