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Bloomberg News
Pope Francis is likely to exploit his moral authority and iconic popularity to pressure Barack Obama on U.S. global economic leadership.
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Reuters
Three in 10 students are coming out of college with not a penny owed.
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Bloomberg News
Bill Gross said the Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates as soon as possible, trading some near-term market losses for longer-term stability and a healthier financial system.
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Maureen Nevin Duffy
Among thousands of retirement savers in the U.S., U.K., Ireland and Australia, those who expressed confidence about achieving their goals also noted constant contact with advisors.
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Ted Knutson
State securities regulators released their 2014 scorecard Tuesday: Investor complaints were up 17 percent over 2013, investigations were down 8.5 percent.
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Reuters
That number is more than 7 percent higher than prior estimates.
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Christopher Robbins
NextCapital is rolling out new features that allow its platform to replace target-date funds as the default option in 401(k) plans and offer more holistic advice to savers.
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Christopher Robbins
R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, a St. Louis-based RIA, will pay $75,000 to settle SEC charges that it failed to protect its clients from a Chinese cyber security breach.
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Bloomberg News
Getting new people signed up for Obamacare will get harder this year as the program tries to access poorer, younger, harder-to-reach individuals, a government official said.
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Ted Knutson
Retail investors are cheering activists, according to a little-known June poll brought to light Tuesday by Broc Romanek, author of the top followed SEC blogs in Washington.
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Reuters
Activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management says it now owns roughly 6 million shares in brokerage firm LPL Financial Holdings Inc.
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Ted Knutson
The man named the most influential financial advisor on social media for the second year in a row says he is tweeting less and enjoying the fruits of his labor more.
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Ted Knutson
The SEC voted unanimously to propose measures to try to insure open-end mutual funds and ETFs are able to continuously meet redemptions without significantly lowering their NAV.
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Reuters
Cyber security companies are raising large rounds of financing from investors, whose tremendous appetite for high-tech defenses is not expected to subside even in a market correction.
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Bloomberg News
After UBS helped the government dig itself into a deeper hole and put island customers on the hook for the losses that followed, its Puerto Rico saga has become a cautionary tale of how risks can...
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Reuters
The founder of broker gossip website AdvisorHUB has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for not paying federal employment taxes for his workers at a separate business in 2009.
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Bloomberg News
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein says he has a “highly curable” form of lymphoma and will undergo chemotherapy over the next several months.
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Christopher Robbins
Though investors prize advisors for investment management skills, they are most likely to turn to them as a calming influence, says IMCA.
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Bloomberg News
A Texas man accused of operating a Ponzi scheme involving bitcoins pleaded guilty on Monday in what prosecutors say was the first U.S. criminal securities fraud case related to the digital currency.
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Bloomberg News
A former Morgan Stanley financial advisor who was fired in connection with a major breach of client information pleaded guilty on Monday to taking confidential client data.
