Practice

Leaders who focus on employees' best attributes reap the greatest rewards.

Preparation and planning is essential for a flawless move to a new firm.

The chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission talks about too-big-to-fail banks and the push back to reform legislation.

New rules will make it possible for financial fraud tipsters to pocket a bounty of up to 30% of any recovery or sanctions of more than $1 million and provides new protections from employers.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued an alert to investors to look carefully into the potential risks of nonrecourse stock-based loan programs before participating in them.

ING Direct's customers now have one more hoop to jump through to use a personal financial management site. ING isn't apologizing for the inconvenience, and perhaps counterintuitively, PFM providers see no reason ING should.

Workers who participate in 401(k) plans would be greatly served if a bill that has just been reintroduced in the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension is passed.

Bank of America Corp. will pay $20 million and Morgan Stanley $2.35 million for improperly foreclosing on members of the military — some of whom were on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan — under a settlement with the Justice Department.

The median annual cost of care in a private nursing home rose 3.4% over the past year to $77,745—far surpassing the $49,777 median annual household income for Americans, according to Genworth’s “2011 Cost of Care Survey.” And the cost of an assisted living facility rose 2.4% over the past year to $39,135.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined Credit Suisse Securities (USA) $4.5 million, and Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit $3 million for misrepresenting delinquency data and inadequate supervision in connection with the issuance of residential subprime mortgage securitizations.