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Last week, the Financial Stability Oversight Council voted to proceed with rule-making that provides regulators with greater authority to oversee financial companies that are not banks but have more than $50 billion in assets and $20 billion in debt.

At the start of October, the Investment Company Institute announced it was going global.

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Global regulators on Thursday came up with a plan for securities watchdogs to monitor high-frequency trading, but fell short of draconian measures.

Wells Fargo’s Rich Lowrie helped craft the tax proposal that’s driving political debate. Here’s a closer look at the financial planner and the rationale behind GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax proposal.

Firm principals will need to manage costs and people effectively or risk falling behind their peers, Mark Tibergien, chief executive officer of Pershing Advisor Solutions, said during a Money Management Institute conference address this week.

Wells Fargo’s Rich Lowrie helped craft the tax proposal that’s driving political debate.

The United Kingdom Competition Commission said it had provisionally found that the acquisition of the largest all-electronic trading facility in Europe by BATS Global Markets would not significantly block competition.

Exchange-traded funds have become the latest investment product to fall under the Securities and Exchange Commission's radar.

David Blaine is an illusionist, often referred to as a modern-day Houdini. So may be David Blaine Welliver, an investment advisor and operator of a mutual fund based in Buffalo, Minnesota, if the SEC is to be believed.