Invest Financial Corp. said today that it has hired Steve H. Dowden as president and chief executive, succeeding Lynn Niedermeier.
Citigroup Inc.'s announcement that it will convert most of the brokers in its bank-based network into fee-based advisers has many of its brokers wondering how they will get paid and what they will be selling.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro could credibly claim that during her tenure as head of Finra, the group was not responsible for failing to detect the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
A recent report that details Finra's inability to detect R. Allen Stanford's long-running, $7.2 billion fraud clearly shows that the securities industry self-regulator has gaping and significant problems related to its exams of broker-dealers.
Willing to go to any length to avoid oversight by Finra, financial advisers are reluctantly accepting the idea of paying the SEC to regulate them.
Officials for Penson Financial Services Inc. said that a video circulating on the Internet of one of its traders engaging in an apparent naked short sale is a fraud that unfairly accuses the firm of violating Securities and Exchange Commission regulations.
ING Groep NV's decision to sell its Swiss private-banking unit to Julius Baer Group is renewing speculation that the insurer may soon sell off most of its broker-dealer network in the United States.
Although the Alliance for Investor Education hopes that many teachers will gravitate to its newly released resource list of financial-education websites for children, the market downturn may also drive some adults “back to school.”
The Retirement Income Industry Association has formally introduced a new educational course designed to help financial advisers be certified as “retirement management analysts.”
The Vanguard Group Inc., the retirement plan provider and investment manager, says CEO F. William McNabb III will take on the role of board chairman in January.
Faster economic growth next year, particularly in the developing world, will drive oil demand higher than previously expected, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
The number of financial advisers fleeing large brokerages appears to be slowing, as many wirehouse reps are staying put — for now — or joining another wirehouse.
Even during his most frenzied days, when Congress is demanding answers or the president himself is calling, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner makes time to talk to a select group of powerful Wall Street bankers.
The number of new claims for jobless benefits falls to the lowest level since early January, as employers cut fewer workers.
Robert McCann, the former head of the brokerage business at Merrill Lynch & Co., will officially take over as the head of UBS AG's wealth management business by the end of the month, according to a source close to Mr. McCann.
Investors have learned hard lessons about sector weightings over the years.
In another acknowledgment of the rapid rise of independent investment advisers, Putnam Investments is creating a distribution channel dedicated solely to selling its products to them.
The uncertain direction of the economy and the markets remains the “key challenge” for investors, according to Ron Albahary, who was named chief investment officer for Convergent Wealth Advisors on Monday.
