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Editor's View: Marketing, Distribution Can Only Go So Far

FINRA fined Merrill Lynch $8 million and ordered the firm to repay $24.4 million to retirement accounts and charities for allegedly overcharging for mutual fund fees.

Pushback by the Securities and Exchange Commission is complicating a regulatory effort to investigate whether large asset managers should be labeled "systemically risky."

Pushback by the SEC is complicating a regulatory effort to investigate whether large asset managers should be labeled "systemically risky."

The Bank of New York Mellon is planning to enter the reverse mortgage business.

Three legal characteristics of inherited IRAs lead to the Supreme Court conclusion that the funds are not "objectively set aside for the purpose of retirement."

The boom in fixed-income derivatives trading is exposing a hidden risk in debt markets around the world: the inability of investors to buy and sell bonds.

The $3.7 trillion municipal market is headed for the longest losing streak since March after localities offered the most bonds in three months.

Database platforms are providing a major assist to asset managers looking to better organize their marketing and distribution strategies.

One year after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new protections for money- market mutual funds, support is eroding for the agency’s plan to rein in the riskiest of them.