Standard and Poor's today downgraded The Phoenix Cos Inc.'s counterparty credit rating to triple-C+ from B-.
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. will proceed with legal action to try to stop a New York Insurance Department producer compensation regulation from taking effect, the DeWitt, N.Y.-based group announced Wednesday.
The city of Burlington, Vt., filed an arbitration claim against Morgan Stanley with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, alleging breaches of fiduciary duty and fraud by that company's investment consulting division that resulted in damages of more than $21 million for the $118 million Burlington Employees' Retirement System.
Finra's board of governors will review allegations that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro — along with other senior Finra executives — received excessive compensation when she was chief executive of the self-regulatory organization for the brokerage industry.
SEC examiners will turn to outside auditors and other third parties to help verify records at investment advisory and broker-dealer firms, an agency official said last week at the CCOutreach conference.
Many investment advisers are trying to determine whether they will be subject to new audits under custody rules that take effect March 12, according to Chris Thompson, assurance partner in the asset management practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
After all of the controversy and consolidation in the wirehouse sector, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC remains the top-rated firm among high-net-worth investors, according to Cogent Research LLC's 2010 Investor Brandscape report, released Thursday.
Broker-dealers and investment advisers should be subject to the same fiduciary standard of conduct and heightened regulations when providing the same services, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said in prepared testimony today before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
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Lincoln National Corp. announced today that it has opened a new Los Angeles office to help it sell more Lincoln Financial Group life insurance products to small-business owners and high-net-worth individuals on the West Coast.
The New York State Insurance Department released its final producer compensation disclosure regulation Tuesday.
California's insurance commissioner said Tuesday he will push insurance companies doing business in California to divest up to $12 billion in indirect investments in Iran's defense, nuclear, energy and banking industries.
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Swiss bank Credit Suisse Group reported net profit of 2.4 billion Swiss francs ($2.4 billion) for the third quarter, helped by strong returns on financial market trading and investment banking.
The Charles Schwab Corp. has begun calling clients of some registered investment advisers to verify that they have authorized wire transfers of funds from accounts held in custody at the broker-dealer.
Discover Financial Services said on Friday that it paid Morgan Stanley $775 million to settle a dispute over the proceeds from an antitrust lawsuit filed before Morgan Stanley spun off Discover in 2007.
A severe snowstorm has forced the federal government to do something it seldom does — postpone release of several monthly economic reports.
Securities America Inc. was tagged last month with a lawsuit from Massachusetts regulators alleging that the firm misled investors who were sold high-risk private placements.
