Washington lobbyists for the financial services industry were debating last week whether to pitch in $3 million for an apres-election ad campaign to get the $240 billion tax bill passed before the end of the year.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York has added more than traditional custodial services to its online offerings.
State Street Global Advisors Inc. is developing new quantitative models that don't go strictly by the numbers.
John Nuveen Co. is enduring snubs as it strives for respectability as a money manager for the rich.
Three of the country's top organizations for tax professionals are urging Congress to repeal the alternative minimum tax, streamline capital gains taxes and worker classification rules and get rid of phaseouts.
Van Kampen Funds Inc. became the first mutual fund company to have its website awarded the PricewaterhouseCoopers BetterWeb seal of approval, while several others are in the process of getting their own BetterWeb seals.
Federal regulators have begun one of the most sweeping debates on the stock market since the New York Stock Exchange opened in 1817.
Research firm concludes Fidelity lost $2 billion of mutual fund assets to its brokerage business in the first seven months of 1999
After nearly 20 years of watching laggard performance, precious metals investors are finally getting bullish.
Mutual fund sales slipped last year, but the banking industry, a relative beginner in the business, did only half as badly, a consultant's report shows.
Prospects for any sustained rise in the euro appear bleak for the foreseeable future, currency traders say.
Harold Evensky, one of the highest profile financial planners in the country, hopes to chart a new course for his firm in the next 30 to 60 days.
In the past two years, Wall Street's leading firms have invested tens of millions of dollars in electronic communications networks - those new electronic stock markets that some believe pose a real threat to the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange.
