Focus Financial Partners LLC, which calls itself “the leading partnership of independent wealth management firms,” confirmed Monday that it is buying a stake in Joel Isaacson & Co. Inc.
As any stockbroker knows, it isn't just online and institutional brokers that offer discounts.
Royal Bank of Canada today said that it will buy, for an undisclosed sum, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s servicing business for third-party registered investment advisers.
The world economy is recovering at a healthy pace but still needs government stimulus efforts to keep it going, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.
World stock markets fell Tuesday as Japan Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection and investors awaited a raft of fourth-quarter U.S. corporate earnings with a degree of unease following a fairly mixed start to the results season.
Two major life insurers are providing disaster relief to Haiti by making donations to the earthquake-ravaged republic.
Institutional investors are focusing on opportunities in the natural-resources sector by investing in timberland to hedge against inflation.
Both large and small financial services firms joined the worldwide effort to relieve the suffering caused by the earthquake in Haiti.
Moneta Group, a large financial planning and retirement benefits firm, has hired a team of A.G. Edwards Inc. veterans who last year produced around $1.3 million in revenue and managed about $300 million of client assets.
Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd. last week introduced a $75 million catastrophe bond that covers extreme mortality risks.
Utah announced modifications to its Section 529 college savings plan today, including lower fees on some investment options and more flexibility in asset allocation.
Their perspectives are different—one representing business, the other labor unions. But Thomas Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, agree on the urgency of creating jobs to get the economy moving forward.
Rising loan losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s consumer bank and a disappointing reading on consumer sentiment sent investors rushing from stocks Friday.
It would seem to be an obvious conflict of interest for a Wall Street firm to create an investment product, sell it to its clients and then bet that the product would fail.
Federal regulators are proposing new requirements for brokerage firms aimed at reining in risk from their trading customers who are able to get split-second access to markets to buy or sell stocks.
Companies with international operations are set to take advantage of a global economic recovery in 2010 continuing the rally that began in 2009.
New life insurance premium levels at banks leapt by nearly 60% during the third quarter, beating the overall industry's growth for the second consecutive quarter, according to data from Kehrer-LIMRA.
