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Being a problem solver is the key to success.

U.S. officials see Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act as a significant undertaking for financial institutions.

The president of Practice Development Counsel discusses working with multiple generations.

State Street Global Advisors has launched two equity exchange-traded funds designed to track MSCI Global Equity Indices, with one focusing on emerging markets and the other widely covering both developed and developing countries.

Here’s an interactive slide show highlighting the 5 worst-performing Dow component stocks for February 2012.

Here’s an interactive slide show highlighting the 5 best-performing Dow component stocks for February 2012.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 53 points to close at 12,952.07 Wednesday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 shed 20 points and 6.50 points, respectively, in the final trading day of the month.

Wells Fargo & Company will offer a new mobile application for its brokers in 2012 to address a growing need for new advisor tools in digital media.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management said that it has completed its reorganization of its Retirement Plan Services to fully align its sales force with retirement plan advisors.

After a strong start in February, domestic stock mutual funds saw cash outflows of $322 million in the most recent weekly statistics.

Fidelity Investments has launched an initiative dubbed “Thinking Big,” for publicly promoting the research of its investment analysts and experts. The firm will launch the initiative in conjunction with its sponsorship of the 2012 TED conference, an annual event that brings together global thought leaders.

State Street Global Advisors has launched two equity exchange-traded funds designed to track MSCI Global Equity Indices, with one focusing on emerging markets and the other widely covering both developed and developing countries.

After a strong start in February, domestic stock mutual funds saw cash outflows of $322 million in the most recent weekly statistics.

Previously, JP Morgan retirement sales reps were assigned to either mid- or large-market segments.

Larry Fink wants the asset management industry and government to take the lead in propping up investors’ morale in a flagging market.

Mutual of Omaha has named Seth Friedman to serve as 401(k) national sales director. He takes over for Michael Ziccardi, who left the firm in December to join Rekon Intrelligence, which works with advisors to help them build out their businesses.

Bank of America has added a new investment offering to its Merrill Edge program for mass-affluent investors. The new offering — called Merrill Edge Select Portfolios — provides customers with access to actively managed, diversified portfolios and is aimed at the “middle class and the emerging affluent investor,” the bank said. The minimum investment is $20,000.

Here’s an interactive slide show detailing the best investment ideas for this election year from seven financial advisors practicing throughout the country.

The group chose Securities America because “we want to expand our business … [and]… we feel this is a better opportunity and fit than any other firm we researched and reviewed,” according to Tom Gahler.

Former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisor Victor Manuel Rivera Jr. pled guilty in a New Jersey federal court to stealing more than $90,000 from the accounts of his clients.