Dividend investing is one of the best long-term investment opportunities out there, and it looks particularly alluring right now.
Unlike the numbers for January, any data showing lackluster home sales in February can't be fobbed off on the weather
Theflyonthewall.com gets zapped in federal court. That's no doubt good news for Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and all the other firms that sell research to clients.
State decides to go with Union Bank and Trust, instead
A new proposal targeting tainted investment advice would affect millions of workers.
The American Council of Life Insurers today blasted a newly floated tax proposal on unearned income — part of a series of suggested changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.
Investment adviser Richard Feight admits he's not very good at brewing beer, but he's found that the hobby helped him build business connections and network with clients.
The publicity surrounding the debacle of Anna Nicole Smith’s estate highlights the importance of careful estate planning, according to financial advisers, but the errors she made are quite common and are easily remedied.
We all know that Merrill Lynch and Bank of America were a shotgun marriage. Bernanke and Paulson were holding the proverbial shotgun to Mr. Lewis and Mr. Thain's heads and, poof, we have a humongous financial institution.
Congress Asset Management Co. in Boston announced the acquisition of Prelude Asset Management LLC in a deal that creates a $6.4 billion money management shop.
A third of all moves in February came at indies.
In a mixed sign for the U.S. economy, 59% of independent investment advisers surveyed by The Charles Schwab Corp. in late January said they expect consumer savings to increase during the next six months.
Two plaintiffs claimed that brokerages were misled about NASD's merger with the NYSE's regulatory unit. Apparently, Judge Jed Rakoff wasn't moved by their arguments.
Upper-income investors are taking advantage of a change in the tax law and rushing to convert their traditional individual retirement accounts or old 401(k) plans into Roth IRAs.
Taken together, the Icelandic and Greek financial crises can be seen as the second stage of the larger global banking crisis.
State insurance regulators Monday voted in favor of a proposal that would allow carriers to terminate an annuity living or death benefit if a client sold the contract over the secondary market.
E*Trade Financial Corp., which took a black eye from losses on its subprime mortgage holdings, is getting back on track by focusing on its roots as an online brokerage, an analyst said Monday.
Last week, Securities America Inc. was tagged with a lawsuit from Massachusetts regulators alleging that the firm misled investors who were sold high-risk private placements.
