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Schwab and Access Data, a Broadridge Financial Solutions-affiliated data management and analysis solutions provider, announced a new portal for mutual fund asset and sales data.

Chief executive officers' opinions of the economic outlook are virtually unchanged from the third quarter, according to the fourth quarter Business Roundtable CEO survey, released Wednesday.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that regulators are nearing completion of a contentious rule that will ban proprietary trading at U.S. firms.

“The findings are eye-opening for financial advisors because investors are clearly saying they are worried about the economic situation,” said Joe Ready, director of Institutional Retirement and Trust at Wells Fargo.

More changes in Securities and Exchange Commission leadership, which announced the appointment of a new senior advisor to the director in its division of investment management.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission defeated a federal court challenge to a rule requiring mutual funds with commodities investments to register with the agency.

IMPACT 2012 may be over, but Charles Schwab's tech spree certainly isn't.

The exchange-traded funds space has had its fair share of successful launches and flameouts this year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is turning over its leadership with the departure of yet another high-ranking official.

Happy holidays for Gemini Fund Services, which has announced a major achievement for its Northern Lights shared trusts.

Mutual funds suffered total estimated outflows of $2.0 billion for the week ended Wednesday, December 5, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

With the impending fiscal cliff only weeks away, Washington still has not reached a compromise. Yet a recent Gallup survey found that eight in 10 Americans consider achieving resolution to avoid the fiscal cliff extremely or very important. For businesses and individuals, this means a difficult task in year-end tax planning.

For the week ended Dec. 5, investors pulled an estimated $5.84 billion from U.S. funds, bringing total outflows for the year to more than $136 billion.

Many Americans are in the dark about stock market performance in 2012, according to an Edward Jones survey.

JPMorgan Chase CEO said the U.S. economy would thrive next year if lawmakers reach an agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of spending cuts and tax increases.

Two teams with over $1 million in production have joined Merrill Lynch in St. Paul, Minn., and Ithaca, N.Y.

What do breakaway brokers worry about when considering a move into the RIA space? It turns out it's not so different from the concerns of other U.S. workers weighing a job change.

More than 150 chief executive officers, including JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Lloyd Blankfein, called on President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to compromise on a budget deal that would include new tax revenue and spending cuts.

The news media is breathlessly counting down the days until the arrival of the fiscal cliff on December 31. It may make for good television (tune in tomorrow) but it’s not good economic (or good political analysis.) Here’s why:

Only 31% of women feel “extremely” or “very” secure about their current financial situation, according to a study by the State Farm Center for Women and Financial Services at The American College of Financial Services. This widespread sense of insecurity indicates broad opportunities for advisors who can make female clients more confident about their finances.