WASHINGTON — New default options that the Department of Labor will likely approve for 401(k) investments will have a “significant” impact on the way mutual fund assets are invested, independent fund directors were told at a conference here April 12.
IRVINE, Calif. — Smith Barney reps are supportive of the cost-cutting plan New York-based Citigroup Inc. announced April 11.
BOSTON — Labor activists are using a Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring mutual fund proxy disclosure to ratchet up the pressure on executive compensation that they consider excessive.
PHILADELPHIA — At a time when many financial advisers think that investors should stay away from high-yield bonds because they are too risky, along come two high-yield products that investors can use to hedge some of that risk.
SAN FRANCISCO — David Byers was hired away last month from H&R Block Inc. to apply big company retailing tactics to The Mutual Fund Store LLC.
NEW YORK — Dice Holdings Inc., which operates career- and job-oriented websites, including Dice.com and JobsintheMoney .com, plans to raise $100 million through an initial public offering.
WASHINGTON — Financial advice professionals who routinely log 60-hour workweeks may be spinning their wheels, a new report suggests.
Courts and regulators will evaluate your effectiveness as an investment adviser against a process standard — as opposed to a performance standard.
OTTAWA — Two approaches for assessing mutual fund and hedge fund risk are moving forward in Canada.
Another top executive has walked away from the Pacific Select Group LLC, the soon-to-be-dismantled broker-dealer network of Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif.
