By integrating annuities into financial plans, advisers can take precautions against their clients' outliving their assets, according to a retirement income planning expert.
We expect to see job growth in the first quarter of 2010 and an improvement in labor and housing fundamentals throughout the year.
A former executive at UBS has agreed to pay nearly $2.8 million to settle civil insider trading allegations made by New York state regulators.
Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is circulating legislative language that would delete a requirement that brokers acting as advisers be registered investment advisers.
The stock market over the next several months will be most kind to those companies that have the ability to grow in a slower economy, according to Arthur Moretti, manager of the $1.1 billion Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund (NGUAX).
President Barack Obama is going to the heart of Wall Street on the first anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse to outline changes needed to prevent a future crisis like the one that sent the global economy into a tailspin last year.
The good news? The online brokerage added 7,761 net brokerage accounts in February. The bad? Daily average revenue trades fell by 20%
Turns out the King of Pop was also the King of Debt. Michael Jackson left his heirs an estimated $400M bill. What to do if you're Jackson's estate attorneys? Sign a recording deal, of course.
The Labor Dept. is readying a proposal that would force service providers to make more plan info available. Meanwhile, a House committee is said to be unveiling similar legislation this week
In four years, more than 4 million baby boomers annually will reach the normal retirement age for full Social Security benefits.
Charities are getting increasingly nervous that the repeal of the estate tax may mean fewer donations this year from wealthy investors who opt instead to leave their estates to their families.
The temporary suspension of the estate tax is not spurring high-net-worth Americans to take action on their estate plans.
Apparently, seniors set aren't big readers — at least when it comes to information about their investments.
The Investment Company Act of 1940 has resulted in very, very important benefits to Outside, Passive, Minority Investors (“OPMIs”) because of the plethora of substantive protections it brings to OPMIs.
In a blistering attack, money manager John Hussman raps CNBC, blasting the financial network for what he says is myopic and 'cartoonish' content
Robert Mustard was thought to be the person who assaulted a father and son team of reps on Monday. The former client was said to be 'unhappy over some business dealings.'
Richard Smith and son R. Chris Smith — reps at Smith Financial in Dallas — apparently had an ongoing dispute with the suspect, who also turned the gun on himself and is in critical condition.
Standard & Poor's Equity Research recently upgraded its outlook for the biotechnology industry to positive from neutral.
Two life insurers are suing a trio of broker-dealers, accusing them of fraudulently selling to third parties variable annuities with lucrative death benefits on terminally ill individuals.
