Larry Barrett

A new report from MetLife this week suggests that financial advisors need to do a better job of educating their clients about the importance of managing their emotions as well as their spending and investing behavior during and close to retirement just as they did -- presumably -- when they were younger and saving up for their golden years.

Jefferies Group this week tapped Clifford Lanier as its new managing director and head of fixed income cross product sales.

State Street Corp. this week said it will roll out a new mobile application for executive-level portfolio and fund managers' iPads in the fall, giving clients real-time access to portfolio and risk exposure data on their beloved mobile devices.

The Securities Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) are warning investors to make sure they truly understand the risks associated with investing in structured notes with principal protection before they get burned.

Rockefeller Financial this week named John O'Hara, Jr. as its new managing director and senior advisor where he will be responsible for new business development activities.

Could another dotcom bubble be on the horizon? Less than a month after social networking site LinkedIn blew up in its blockbuster initial public offering, online coupon seller Groupon filed its S-1 form with the SEC.

Analysts who turned their back on Ultra Petroleum over the past year may be about to change their tune as the independent oil and natural gas company appears to be primed for some breakout growth and could very well be an acquisition target by a larger competitor.

Guggenheim Funds Distributors Inc. this week launched two new actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFS) that gives investors access to fixed income investment products with the flexibility and tax benefits of ETFs.

LPL Financial this week named industry veteran David Akellian as its new executive vice president and head of custom clearing services.

When it comes to saving for retirement, most Americans have a distorted and potentially disastrous view of just how well they're doing relative to their parents and grandparents.

DWS Investments, the retail mutual funds arm of Deutsche Bank, on Wednesday named Michael J. Woods as regional head and CEO, adding those titles and responsibilities to his current role as U.S. head of distributions.

It turns out the merely comfortable are expecting better performance from the economy and their individual investments through the remainder of the year than those residing in highest tax brackets.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney made the inevitable official by allowing a test group of 600 wealth management advisors to use Twitter in a limited capacity to connect and interact with clients and prospective new clients.

After navigating their portfolios through some very difficult investment waters in recent years many ultra high net worth investors are now adopting a more laissez-faire approach to their investments, leaving the day-to-day details to their financial advisors.

Chief financial officers at some of the nation's largest banks and financial services firms are downright bullish on the U.S. economy's overall outlook but nagging concerns about health care reform and the uncertainty of those costs are tempering their optimism.

They don't have the big-chip cache of the large-cap funds or the diamond-in-the-rough promise of the small caps, but mid-cap mutual funds have consistently outperformed both of those asset classes over the past decade and there's no reason to think that trend will end anytime soon.

Lincoln Financial Group unveiled Lincoln InStep, an educational program for retirement plan participants designed to raise advisors awareness of products, services and strategies to help defined benefit contributors maximize their retirement savings investments.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined Chicago-based Nuveen Investments $3 million for creating and distributing misleading brochures to promote the sale of auction rate preferred securities.

Exchange traded funds continue to gain in popularity with both retail and institutional investors but actively managed ETFs represent only a tiny fraction of the more than $1.1 trillion in assets trading in U.S. ETFs.

The schizophrenic behavior of the U.S. economy in the past six months has forced large consumer products firms to look outside their own empires for new revenue sources. Fortunately, most of them have plenty of cash to spend.