More mutual fund investors will be hit with higher tax bills again this year as the trend for increasing capital gains taxes continues unabated...
Fidelity Investments today unveiled two new offerings: the Fidelity Advisor Mega Cap Stock Fund and the VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio...
Growing interest in single-family homes from prospective buyers has boosted home builder confidence slightly in February, but the group's six-month outlook remains iffy, the National Association...
Morningstar, Inc. yesterday launched a series of products that will do for hedge funds what it has long done for mutual funds...
Given that most financial advisors are focused on the upcoming tsunami of retiring baby boomers, thoughts of serving Generation X currently isn't a top priority...
The American College will convene a webcast on the subject of ethics in the financial services field with several leading industry experts...
RBC Dain Rauscher Inc., a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada, announced today it signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Ferris, Baker Watts Inc...
iRebal, the rule-based rebalancing application owned by TD Ameritrade that automatically generates trade recommendations for multiple account level rebalancing and cash management, recently...
E*TRADE Financial Corp. yesterday announced that it signed an agreement to sell RAA Wealth Management, LLC to PHH Investments, Ltd. for $80 million...
Focus Financial Partners, LLC, a New York-based holding company with 15 independent wealth management firms and more than $26 billion in client assets, yesterday announced its first international...
Dow Jones & Co. today announced that Bank of America Corp. and Chevron Corp. will replace Altria Group, Inc., and Honeywell International, Inc., in the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Janus and Hartford Mutual Funds brought their average investors the best return on their money over the past three years, says a new Morningstar fund...
National Planning Holdings Inc...
The Financial Services Institute (FSI) said it ended 2007 with more than 12,600 active financial advisor members, a 141% increase over 2006...
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. yesterday announced that it completed its acquisition of Fiserv's investment support services business for roughly $225 million cash...
The
number of brokers and advisors likely to consider leaving their current
employer and switching to another firm in the next 12 months nearly doubled to
9%, from...
Wilmington Trust Corp. yesterday announced it signed a definitive agreement to buy AST Capital Trust Co. for an undisclosed amount...
It's a classic dilemma: Americans are lambasted for not saving enough, yet our spendthrift ways are the linchpin that keeps the economy afloat...
As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee today lowered its target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points, to 3%...
A survey of financial advisors' outlook on the economy and the stock market sank to new lows in January, according to Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking...
