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The SEC accelerated approval of rule changes to allow the Chicago Board Options Exchange to acquire the National Stock Exchange at the end of December.

Stocks closed mixed ahead of Friday’s much-anticipated December non-farm payrolls report as the Dow trimmed 2.72 points to finish at 12,415.70 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 mustered small gains.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an Illinois-based investment adviser with using LinkedIn and other social media channels to attempt to sell $500 million in fictitious securities.

Steve Sanduski, the Prosperous Advisor, says it’s important for financial advisors who want to succeed to understand the “why” behind each of their goals. They also must ask themselves if they’re setting these goals for the right reasons and whether they’re in the best interests of their clients.

William Polk Carey, founder of investment management firm W.P. Carey & Co., died on Jan. 2 at age 81, the company announced.

This week, IRA expert Ed Slott fields some questions from investors about non-deductible IRAs and RMDs on inherited IRAs.

Raymond James & Associates has hired two financial advisors from Wells Fargo to open its first office Richmond, Va., office for its employee broker-dealer business.

The reduction in pension and health care benefits for public sector employees in Florida has led to a rush by people nearing retirement age to opt out early.

With rising life expectancies and reports of lackluster retirement savings, the risk is a growing concern for many Americans.

Fresh messages about the value of annuities have started to flow from a variety of sources.

Active and automatic ways to keep your new prospect pipeline flowing all the time.

If you've got the right asset allocation model, it doesn't really matter what large-cap equity fund you use.

Investors pulled more than $125 billion out of mutual funds that invest long-term in stocks last year, according to the latest data released by the Investment Company Institute. Of that, $5.2 billion got pulled in the week leading up to New Year’s Eve.

How a tiny, focused portfolio can outperform funds' benchmark indexes over time.

Investors added $117.6 billion to their holdings in exchange-traded funds in 2011. That is almost identical to 2010, when they added $118.7 billion, and 2009, when they added $119.4 billion. But the value of their holdings only increased $51.4 billion, because the value of their shares fell, according to the Exchange Traded Fund Association.

Investing in 2012 may very well prove to be the year of “risky business” because of the possible rewards and punishments, according to Prudential Annuities Chief Market Strategist Quincy Krosby.

Web Exclusive: It took Oxford Financial CEO Jeffrey Thomasson years to figure out how to recruit and hire the best people. Now, the nation’s second-largest RIA has it down to a science – and the firm is thriving like never before.

Growth in exchange-traded funds fell to 5.1% in 2011, from 27.5% in 2010 and 46.7% in 2009, according to figures released by the Exchange Traded Fund Association. The category with the biggest gains: fixed-income funds.

The SEC has charged an Illinois-based investment advisor with using LinkedIn and other social media channels to attempt to sell $500 million in fictitious securities.

Advisors seeking better client communication tools are likely to have their wish come true because wealth management firms are expecting to increase their IT budgets by 5% to 10% this year.