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This week, IRA expert Ed Slott answers readers’ questions about consolidating IRAs and the tax implications of 401(k) withdrawals.

Morningstar has launched Annuity Intelligence, a web-based research and evaluation tool for advisors and broker-dealers charged with finding the best variable annuity products for their clients.

Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. has named Bob Stuber managing principal where he’ll be responsible for growing and servicing the firm’s client base in the Houston area.

LPL has relationships with 680 banks and credit unions. Robert Comfort said in an interview that he expects to significantly increase LPL’s presence in the channel.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mary L. Schapiro did not 'break the buck' at the annual membership meeting of the Investment Company Institute.

New survey puts the onus on life insurers to work more proactively with the agency force to provide the tools, marketing and advertising support to better educate consumers about life insurance.

Trading opened a half hour late Friday. Orders placed on its IPO Cross system did not get delivered to the market. For about two hours, Nasdaq could not issue quotes on Facebook shares. And, yet, it continued trading in Facebook shares, a possible violation of Regulation National Market System.

The Hartford has promoted Brion Johnson to chief investment officer and president of Hartford Investment Management Company

Over the past year, nearly 70 mutual funds have snapped up pre-IPO shares of Facebook on private markets ahead of its IPO today, CNNMoney reports.

The big question following JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s now-notorious derivative trade is whether it would have been permitted under the so-called 'Volcker Rule.' But the answer is clear cut to an advocacy group that has led calls for regulatory restrictions after the 2008 crisis.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed another 73.11 points to close at 12,369.38 and Facebook’s much-hyped initial public offering failed to prop up the downtrodden tech sector as the Nasdaq dropped 34.90 points to finish at 2,778.79.

Charles Schwab's Retirement Plan Services unit in January made waves by going passive.

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It's been a tumultuous and rather embarrassing four months for Deutsche Bank and Guggenheim Partners.

Asset management companies can anticipate regulatory focus to intensify as implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act progresses -and not just from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mary L. Schapiro did not 'break the buck' at the annual membership meeting of the Investment Company Institute.

On May 18, 201, Invesco’s Small Companies Fund will change its name to...

Andrew Engel, a portfolio manager at Minneapolis-based Leuthold Weeden Capital Management, passed away on May 9, according to the firm.

Over the past year, nearly 70 mutual funds have snapped up pre-IPO shares of Facebook on private markets ahead of its IPO today, CNNMoney reports.

On May 18, 2012, Investors snubbed U.S. stock mutual funds yet again, according to the latest statistics from the Investment Company Institute.