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Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. has introduced a bill that would merge the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to form the Securities Derivatives Commission.

Three out of four global investors expect President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to reach a short-term agreement to avert more than $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to begin on Jan. 1.

President Obama’s top economic adviser challenged Republican congressional leaders to put an offer on the table in fiscal-cliff talks and defended Obama’s debt-reduction proposals as concrete and detailed.

John Hancock Funds has had a solid 2012, but it's not about to let the good times stop rolling

American Century Investments has renamed its Inflation Protection Bond (APOIX) fund to Short Duration Inflation Protection Bond fund to better reflect the fund’s strategy.

Think you've got your target-date planning down pat? Think again.

For the better part of two years, Mary Schapiro told anyone who would listen that the federal government could not afford another bailout and that the money market mutual fund industry would have to backstop itself.

The recent talk of a fiscal cliff compromise from Republicans and Democrats appear to have dissolved as leaders of both sides leveled pointed criticism at the other for failing to offer a truly balanced plan for taxes and spending cuts. So what's next?

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Analytic Investors is welcoming back a familiar face. The firm has named George Matthews Head of Consultant Relations and Business Development.

Flexibility with rollovers, investments cited as key advantages of HSAs

The Financial Services Institute elected David Stringer, Stephen Chipman, and Dick Lampen to its board for next year.

Here it is, our annual list of the top advisors in the bank channel.

Royal Bank of Canada, the first Canadian lender to report fourth-quarter results, said profit rose 22 percent on higher trading and investment-banking fees, beating analysts’ estimates.

The SEC has accused a Chicago advisor and his firm of defrauding clients and others by promising them a private equity fund the firm managed would “beat the market."

“I don’t believe you’re going to get some sort of an early warning,” Gundlach said. “You should be moving now.”

Investors looking out for the fabled fiscal cliff should be careful not to tumble down the “earnings cliff,” if corporate profits plunge.

High-yield dividend stocks may have entered a bubble, and clients and advisors should be aware.

John Hancock Financial, the US division of Manulife Financial Corporation, has named Sebastian Pariath as head of John Hancock Operations, effective January 1, 2013.

San Francisco's Charles Schwab Investment Management emerges as yet another firm seeking an alternative to traditional preservation methods, filing for an actively managed ETF that specifically seeks capital preservation and daily liquidity.