Practice

The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to meet next week to address how to prevent runs on money market funds that could disrupt the $2.7 trillion market and the nation's financial system as a whole.

A pension expert panned federal lawmakers’ efforts to increase oversight of state and local governments’ public pension plans.

Republicans are strongly considering using a rare procedural move to prevent President Obama from making a recess appointment to install a director of the CFPB.

On the one-year anniversary of the Flash Crash, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary L. Schapiro said the behavior of high-frequency trading firms will be closely scrutinized -- and placing obligations on high-speed traders to maintain markets in stocks "remains on the table.''

But so far, it is not drawing in new demographics.

Ninety percent of advisors said they aren’t doing enough to market and publicize their practice effectively, according to a survey by Peak Advisor Alliance. Most still wary of social media.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed requiring financial firms to report in real-time either short sale transactions or positions as part of an initiative to increase disclosure on the popular practice

A group of motivated financial planners in Massachusetts are using their skills to help people in need – cancer patients at Boston’s esteemed Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Wells Fargo failed to promptly send prospectuses to certain mutual fund customers and update records for representatives employed by the firm, FINRA said.

Here’s a sad truth—you can spend your days absorbing knowledge and becoming very intelligent, but if you don’t do anything with that knowledge, you’re no better off than somebody else who sat around eating popcorn and watching reruns of Fantasy Island.