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The Financial Planning Coalition has called on Congress to support the Securities and Exchange Commission in establishing a fiduciary standard of care for broker-dealers.

Despite volatility in the municipal market, sales of individual tax-free bonds to retail investors have been brisk even as cash withdrawals from muni mutual funds are still high, experts say.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank required more time to review the more than 11,000 comment letters it's received on its interchange proposal issued in December.

A Federal Reserve decision that will let many banks pay dividends again is another sign that the equity markets have returned to health, and it likely will stoke investor demand for financials, according to Mary Ann Deignan, head of equity capital markets in the Americas for UBS.

This year's ICI Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference wraps up today. So let's take a walk down memory lane.

FSC credited Schafly with stabilizing and accelerating advisor retention.

PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Back in 2007, no one talked about systemic risk. Now, the term “systemic risk” is on everyone’s minds. But defining it has not come out of the constant attention paid to it now.

With the Dow Jones and S&P 500 both rising around 3% last week, BlackRock’s Chief Equity Strategist Bob Doll expects that stocks will continue to shine.

PALM DESERT, Calif.: The idea is simple. When sending out a notice that proxy voting material is online … send out the proxy card that lets a shareholder vote at the same time.