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Retail investors in municipal bonds are shaken, but still standing, after a relentless barrage of forecasts of massive municipal bankruptcies and defaults this year.
February 9 -
Easing market conditions helped LPL Financial realize a surge in net new advisers in the fourth quarter, and the company is confident it can continue.
February 9 -
UBS, the Swiss bank that needed a government rescue in 2008, expects to attract more funds from wealthy clients this year after recording a second straight quarterly increase.
February 9 -
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To boost its business in the Northeast, Chicago's Northern Trust has hired three wealth advisers and a wealth strategist.
February 8 -
For a mutual fund with a strong track record, Nicholas Equity Income Fund is not particularly large. And its manager is fine with that.
February 8 -
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is testing Apple's iPad with its annuities sales force.
February 7 -
Municipal bond mutual fund outflows continued to subside last week from recent record-setting levels as the cash most prone to panic appears to have left by now.
February 7 -
The financial advisory industry is overwhelmingly dominated by men, but women at the TD Ameritrade Institutional national conference in San Diego, made their presence known at a women's leadership roundtable on Friday.
February 7 -
Inflation continues to be a key theme in mutual fund firms' product development.
February 7 -
Not long ago, executives at PNC Financial Services gave a heads-up to the bank's advertising firm, Deutsch: Start brainstorming for a new campaign that focuses on investment services.
February 4 -
Citigroup Inc.'s private banking unit plans to set up a social networking site exclusive to the kids of ultrarich Citi clients.
February 3 -
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An innovative do-it-yourself investment platform is looking to broaden its business by providing high-net-worth-style service to investors who have as little as $50,000.
February 2 -
Financial industry leaders are taking on hedge funds, even if regulators aren't.
February 2 -
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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is exploring state public pension laws to see whether there are types of disclosure in common that they could encourage issuers to submit to its Electronic Municipal Market Access site, board officials told reporters on Jan. 31.
February 1 -
Even with a long-term shift to passive investing, "managed solutions" packaging exchange-traded funds should also grow rapidly, said Scott Burns, Morningstar's ETF expert.
February 1 -
When RJ Parsons put stop-loss orders on his 5,000 shares of MannKind Corp., he thought it would protect him from losing a chunk of his investment.
February 1 -
The Investment Management Consultants Association announced Jan. 27 that the cumulative pass rate for its CIMA qualification exam was 63%, and 58% for the CIMA certification exam.
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