Under the rule, if an investment adviser or certain employees of an advisory firm contribute to a politician with influence over hiring, they cannot be paid by the pension fund for two years.
Though it appears that regulatory oversight of equity-indexed annuities will remain with states — and not shift to the Securities and Exchange Commission — some insurers are nonetheless rolling out indexed-annuities that qualify as securities.
BP shares sunk Thursday in London as U.S. politicians pressed the British oil company to halt its dividend payments and fork out greater compensation for American workers and companies devastated by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Business propositions that center on making money through investing is out of sync with the times.
Rational markets? Hardly. In reality, humans tend to have a narrow focus -- often missing the obvious
TCW Asset Management has given investors in its Special Mortgage Credits Fund I and II until Feb. 19 to decide whether to liquidate their investments.
As soon as he heard that 13-year-old Margaret Hurt was in danger of losing the horse she had been riding since becoming sick with leukemia two years ago, Preston Byers agreed to donate $6,000 to help her buy Hoochie.
The erudite editor of Grant's Interest Rate Investor debunks Treasuries as risk-free investments, and makes a case for gold and cash.
Listed as a "monument to unparalleled success," the largest home for sale in the United States comes with plenty of space but no carpet, tiles or interior walls. It's up to the future buyer to finish it.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon named longtime associate Heidi Miller to the new post of president of J.P. Morgan International as part of a management shuffle to groom an eventual successor.
High-net-worth investors in the U.S. are more pessimistic about the economic recovery than wealthy individuals in many other nations, according to survey released today by Barclays Wealth.
Of all of the 52 weekly market commentaries I do each year, this one's always the most exciting for me. I've been doing these top 10 investment themes off and on for the past 18 years, and this marks my second top 10 commentary with The Hartford.
Credit-default swaps broker Phoenix Partners Group and brokers who worked at four other firms including Tullett Liberty Inc. and Creditex Group Inc. will pay $4.3 million to settle claims that they attempted to fix fees.
Almost forty years after the U.S. officially abandoned the gold standard and its $35-an-ounce peg, the price of spot gold on Friday reached $1258 an ounce, another record, on Friday.
The uncertain economy is compounding a long-term problem in the brokerage business: its shrinkage.
James Flynn, Rance Hillier and Merritt Zahner will work out of the Madison, Conn. offices of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Many representatives and agents say the new requirements add to the already complex layers of review required by Finra.
Federal regulators on Monday filed civil fraud charges against an investment adviser and his firm in connection with complex securities tied to mortgages during the housing market bust.
