The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a $30 million fine against former Amaranth Advisors LLC energy trader Brian Hunter, who is accused of manipulating the natural-gas futures market in 2006.
The Federal Reserve Board's low-interest-rate policy has hurt retirees, which was anticipated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> in an editorial last year.
In this one-on-one with Kelli Cruz, the director of custom research at InvestmentNews, Jon Yankee, partner and CFO at Fox, Joss & Yankee, shares his thoughts on staffing and recruiting.
Encouraging news on the job front, particularly in New Mexico, but Nevada's losing streak continues
Dynasty Financial Partners LLC has hired Loren Morris as director of RIA services.
The mortgage expense tax deduction and other 'sacred cows' would be gutted under an influential lawmaker's tax proposal
Will head up BofA unit's institutional consulting group; wirehouse veteran
With investors moving out of cash, assets reach record levels
Hoping to strengthen its agent force, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. has paired with Career Athletes LLC to recruit students as interns and agents
Budget battle is sound and fury signifying very little
While the 2010 Tax Act for now locks in the current marginal tax rates for all income levels, advisers thinking about the future need tools at their disposal now to help sort out a client's future options, especially when it comes to the estate tax.
A New York investment adviser was jailed for engaging in post-arrest activity similar to the conduct that led to civil and criminal allegations against him after he couldn't raise additional bail a U.S. judge required.
Investment bank Jefferies Group Inc. said Thursday that it's selling its broker-dealer clearing and custody business to Pershing LLC, a unit of Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
When clients ask Yale Levey to forecast how the tax code might change next year, his answer is invariably the same: “I have absolutely no idea"
Ameriprise Financial Inc. is willing to spend nearly $200 million to bail out its beleaguered independent-broker-dealer subsidiary, Securities America Inc., because the spectacle of its collapse would be a huge embarrassment for the financial planning giant and draw the ire of regulators, according to securities industry experts
The Hartford has hired Jackson National Life Insurance Co.'s variably annuity product development chief Steve Kluever.
