A financial adviser from northwest Arkansas said he's seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, joining an increasingly crowded field of GOP hopefuls.
Stocks rose in morning trading Tuesday as commodities rebounded ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting on interest rates.
The performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average —up 12% for all of 2009—and other broad market indicators, are evidence that the recession is over and normalcy is returning to both the stock market and the economy, according to some industry experts.
Client-centric marketing tactics and a more emotional approach are key to financial advisers' efforts to distinguish themselves from their competition, a tele-savvy adviser said today at the Insured Retirement Institute's annual conference in Boston.
Another key executive with the ING Advisors Network Inc. has stepped down, as the network's parent, ING Groep NV, continues an evaluation of the broker-dealers that could lead to their sale.
The rise in the price of gold is only getting started, according to Thomas Winmill, president of Midas Management Corp. and manager of the $115 million Midas Fund.
The Insured Retirement Institute today chose James A. Shepherdson, executive vice president of Axa Equitable, as the group's chairman.
President Barack Obama, squeezing in a pitch for his domestic agenda, is promoting his administration's promises of innovation at a New York community college before weeklong meetings on international priorities.
Insurance broker and consulting firm Marsh & McLennan Cos. said Monday that it will extend President and CEO Brian Duperreault's contract an additional three years to Jan. 29, 2014.
Al Frank Asset Management Inc. today announced it has acquired Innealta Portfolio Advisors LLC, a quantitative asset management firm specializing in the creation and tactical management of exchange-traded fund portfolios.
Not many mutual fund managers have a 19-year tenure on a fund, and only a handful of them were able to outperform their peers in all three major bear markets of the past two decades.
James McDonald, president and chief executive of Rockefeller & Co. Inc., one of the country's largest multifamily of-fices, died on Sept. 13.
Assets managed by the 50 largest registered-investment-advisory firms grew by a barely perceptible 0.4% during the second quarter, according to research conducted by RIA Database for <i>InvestmentNews</i>.
Judging by the recent 2009 Moss Adams/ InvestmentNews Adviser Compensation and Staffing Study, financial planning, investment advisory and independent-brokerage firms could teach companies in many other fields how to manage in tough times.
Deflation is working its way back into polite conversation.
The Department of the Treasury wants all states that have an income tax and also sponsor a Section 529 college savings plan to offer residents a tax break, no matter what plan they choose, even if it is one from another state.
The immediate future continues to look bright to Tom Forester, manager of the $90 million Forester Value Fund (FVALX). The fund stood out at the end of last year for its 0.4% gain.
The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says she is "considering all options, including borrowing from Treasury," to replenish the dwindling fund that insures bank deposits.
The Vanguard charitable fund has seen a double-digit increase in contributions this year, while comparable funds at Fidelity and Schwab didn't fare as well.
