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As is typical in periods when there’s the prospect of higher inflation, investment interest in collectibles is growing, and art prices in particular having been setting records. But do these represent safe vehicles for protecting your clients’ assets?

Sixty percent of CFOs believe the state of the U.S. economy will remain stagnant or worsen during the next six months, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

Deutsche Bank AG, Europe’s biggest investment bank by revenue, barred multi-party chat rooms at its fixed-income and currency trading businesses as regulators continued punishing banks for alleged rate-rigging.

Deutsche Bank AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group are among six companies fined a record 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion) by the European Union for rigging interest rates linked to Libor.

The overall advisor population has been sliding -- and a new study finds that only one category of advisors is expanding to fill the gap.

Wall Street banks, which already shut proprietary trading units that helped fuel record profits, are girding to learn next week how much revenue the Volcker rule may cut from the $44 billion they say comes from market-making.

Deborah Castellani, a principal and senior fiduciary specialist with Akros Fiduciary in Austin, Texas, responded on LinkedIn to a story about advisory firms sanctioned by the SEC over their compliance programs.

Some advisors question the time, energy and creativity involved in blogging, but here are some ways it's helping solo advisor Dave Grant's practice.

The firm sweetened awards for financial planning and increased pressure on its lowest producers.

The Private Client Reserve hired a former Mayo Clinic executive to join the healthcare solutions team as vice president and healthcare banking specialist in Minneapolis.

The fast-growing Kansas-based advisory firm with national ambitions has planted its flag in New York City, signing on RR Advisory Group.

Instead of simply screening out trouble areas, impact investing refers more broadly to the alignment of clients' values with their portfolios. Here are seven smart strategies.

Although many in the industry consider Dynasty and HighTower rivals for the allegiance of breakaway teams and independent RIAs, CEO Shirl Penney says Dynasty “doesn’t run into [HighTower] as much as you may think.”

When Illinois lawmakers report to the capital in Springfield today for another attempt at fixing the nation’s worst-funded state pension system, the gathering will have a ring of familiarity.

If you are a small bank willing to sell for cash, there's an increasing chance a large credit union might be interested in making you an offer.

FINRA barred Fernando Arevalo and Jimmy Caballero, two brokers at JPMorgan Chase Securities, for stealing $300,000 from an elderly widow with diminished mental capacity.

Ernst & Young agreed to pay investors $99 million to settle litigation over its auditing of the bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings, according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan.

The U.S. Treasury Department has signed intergovernmental agreements with the Cayman Islands and Costa Rica in an effort to combat offshore tax evasion as part of the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

The IRS has released the final regulations for the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax that was imposed as part of the Affordable Care Act.

JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Group, the world’s biggest trading firms, had their revised capital plans for 2013 cleared by the Federal Reserve on Monday, a month before next year’s submissions are required.