Among the many provisions in the SEC's plan to overhaul 12(b)-1 fees for mutual funds, perhaps the most contentious is the five-year grandfathering of existing share classes that charge in excess of 25 basis points.
The top 50 largest registered investment advisory firms managed $127.2 billion as of the end of the second quarter — up a sizable 16% from the end of the second quarter in 2009.
Study reveals which locales will end up with highest total marginal tax rates; Hawaiian punch
The Tax Foundation, a Washington research group that advocates for lower taxes, said state, local and federal levies would result in a tax rates of nearly 50% in some states' top earners.
Citigroup Inc.'s private bank will triple the number of hedge funds such as Paulson & Co. that its wealthy clients can invest in, under a push to increase money-management revenue.
Westwood Holdings Group Inc. Ticker:(WHG) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire McCarthy Group Advisors LLC in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year.
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UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, is putting more focus on its richest clients in Asia and bringing its investment bankers closer to asset managers to meet their demands.
A Florida investor is suing TD Ameritrade Inc. for allegedly allowing a financial adviser to steal more than $2.3 million from her brokerage accounts.
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Bank of America Corp. settled a lawsuit filed by a broker who claimed the bank's Merrill Lynch & Co. unit discriminates against women through its partnership model.
More than half of investors are confused about who has fiduciary duty when providing financial advice, while more than 90% want fiduciary rules to apply to brokers and insurance agents, according to a survey released Wednesday.
President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of showing action on the economy ahead of the November elections.
Fidelity Investments says it is seeing the average assets of its breakaway broker teams increasing.
Li Lu, the hedge-fund manager who helped Berkshire Hathaway Inc. find profits in China, may push Warren Buffett's investment company to make more deals outside the U.S. if he takes a role at the company.
The 50 largest registered investment advisory firms managed a total of $127.2 billion in discretionary assets as of the end of the second quarter, up an impressive 16% from a year earlier.
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s move into active ETF management with the acquisition of Windward Investment Management Inc., which was announced today, didn't come as a surprise to advisers, who gave it high marks.
Cold calling, as a method for bringing in new accounts, appears to be alive and well.
With their day-to-day business practices likely to change as a result of the new financial-reform law, broker-dealers are scrambling to assess their technology preparedness.
