There's an old saying that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.
New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer isn't just getting scandal-plagued mutual fund companies to cry uncle. He is going for their wallets, too.
A bipartisan group of senators has offered compromise legislation that would require publicly traded companies to include in expense statements stock options for their top employees.
Concerned that the public - and even some financial planners - are clueless about its practice standards, the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. in Denver is on a mission to spread the word.
The Internal Revenue Service is already helping taxpayers use a new tax law providing income exclusions for death benefit payments and certain home sales.
Mutual funds that use hedging strategies are finding their way into variable-annuity subaccounts - a move some expect will snowball in the coming year.
Some of Wall Street's most powerful firms, reeling from steep drops in stock-trading profits, are urging regulators to help them make more money.
It is one of those rare moments in Leon Wagner's 26 years on Wall Street. Virtually every investment he has made recently has gone up - a lot.
After losing a number of brokers to big boys on Wall Street, David Lerner went to the mat on two arbitration cases.
When Dain Rauscher Inc. bought Minneapolis neighbor Wessels Arnold & Henderson LLC four years ago, it thought it also was snagging all the top executives of the investment bank, known for its technology deals.
Experts say investors can loosen the binds of their restrictive UGMA or UTMA accounts and get into a 529 — with a few caveats.
