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Bloomberg News
The burden of the retirement savings shortfall in the U.S. will weigh heavily on women, according to Sallie Krawcheck, a former executive at Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc.
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Bloomberg News
As central bankers prop up bond and stock markets with near-zero interest rates and bond purchases, gold is being overlooked, according to Elliott Management’s Paul Singer.
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Reuters
Finra, aiming to protect elderly clients from scams and their own diminished mental capacity, will propose rules requiring brokers to identify—when an account is opened—a "trusted" person who can...
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Dan Jamieson
UBS AG has agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle SEC charges that it misled U.S. investors about the value of structured notes based on a proprietary currency index.
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Bloomberg News
Mergers and acquisitions may pick up for companies that are seeking to unload blocks of long-term care insurance, said Patrick Fels, a banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Reuters
The era of making a broad bet on mutual fund companies as a way to play America's self-funded retirement boom appears to have ended.
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Bloomberg News
Warren Buffett said corporate executives who are seeking to fend off activist investors should return to the basics and consider skipping strategies pitched by Wall Street.
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Ted Knutson
Shareholder activists are increasingly wooing pension funds and other institutional investors, according to a new report.
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Bloomberg News
Small companies in the U.S. see wage growth accelerating in coming months after 23 percent said in September that they recently boosted worker compensation.
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James Saft/Reuters
This U.S. earnings season the data from the frontline is about to confirm the broader economic narrative: Things aren’t so great.
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Karen DeMasters
A majority of retirement plan participants want their advisors to put the clients' interests first, a new survey says.
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Karen DeMasters
Baby boomers are caught between not enough savings and a long retirement, the Insured Retirement Institute says.
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Karen DeMasters
The SEC obtained a federal court judgment against a Las Vegas investment advisor’s scheme involving a company Malom, an acronym for ‘Make A Lot Of Money.’
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Christopher Robbins
Fantasy sports is taking the nation by storm and attracting a wary eye from regulators, but it's those with $100,000 or less in assets who are most involved in the activity, according to Spectrem...
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Bloomberg News
The Perkins Loan program, which has been a source of college financial aid since 1958, is no more.
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Karen DeMasters
BusinessAdviceSource.com has some ideas about where retirees can direct their energies to stay active or to earn a little income.
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Edelman Financial Services (EFS) announced today that private equity firm Hellman & Friedman (H&F) has acquired a majority interest in the Fairfax, Va.-based independent financial planning firm.
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Dan Jamieson
The rule doesn’t go as far as state regulators wanted.
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David Sterman
Swirling controversy and overall market upheaval have brought biotech’s lofty valuations closer to Earth.
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Bloomberg News
Walter Gerken, the former insurance executive who helped build Pacific Investment Management Co., which went on to oversee the world’s biggest bond fund, has died. He was 93.
