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WASHINGTON-While fund companies do a good job of focusing on investor needs and expectations, to best help clients prepare for retirement, they need to first understand investor behavior, according to panelists at the Investment Company's Institute's 49th Annual General Membership Meeting here this month.

Treadway Pays Second, $75,000 Fine to SEC Over Directed Brokerage

WASHINGTON-As the home office absorbs more of the functions formerly handled by financial advisers in the field, gatekeepers at these broker/dealers increasingly look for products that offer the total package: capacity, price, style, innovation and product support.

China's equity market has reached such a frenzy of irrational exuberance that Chinese authorities are not the only ones sounding warnings about the market becoming overheated.

China's equity market has reached such a frenzy of irrational exuberance that Chinese authorities are not the only ones sounding warnings about the market becoming overheated.

A.G. Edwards Settles With SEC on Oversight Charges

WASHINGTON-Financial advisers seek service above all else when it comes to picking separately managed account products for their platforms, according to panelists at the Money Management Institute's 10th Annual Conference here earlier this month.

NEW YORK-Future generations are going to be saddled with tremendous college debt if the financial industry doesn't do a better job of talking to families about the importance of saving for their children's higher education, according to panelists at an AllianceBernstein Investments event here last week, "Perspectives on College Savings."

By Brian Bono, CFA, Senior Investment Analyst, Brinker Capital, and Noreen Beaman, CPA, EVP, Strategic Planning, Brinker Capital

Whether it's protection of their own investments or a sense of responsibility to the world, there is an intriguing, if not unexpected, movement developing among mutual fund investors.