Practice

Last week's initial public offering by the Palo Alto, Calif., company, a retirement plan advisor co-founded by a Nobel Prize winner, affirmed investor belief in a business model offering low-cost sophisticated retirement advice to individual investors.

Hedge funds in Europe have begun embracing the UCITS III structure to sell their portfolios to a wider base of retail investors and rebuild trust, but shareholder interest groups warn this may be a vast mistake. Transparency of complex structures still does not make an investor well-informed or an investment suitable, they argue.

Market observers say that Obama’s healthcare plan as it now stands creates 30 million new consumers without reining in costs.

In recent years, managers of target-date funds have made the argument that target-date funds need to take on added equity exposure and risk to see investors through retirements that could span 30 years or longer.

In the never-ending game of musical chairs, wirehouses recruit from each other, and from UBS.

Eichelberger hired as trusts and estates partner at Fulbright & Jaworski

Tampa broker-dealer had been facing problems for months.

Where there's a will, there's a way to change it ... at the last minutes.

A new company is promising to shake up the way Americans invest by providing individuals with direct access to institutionally priced mutual funds and other investments.

Property/casualty insurers are objecting to provisions contained within regulatory reform legislation authored by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd.