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Giving feedback, recognition and rewards to staff is a worthy management technique that can help grow your business.

Unlike men, women are more focused on relationships when deciding whether to move to another firm.

To help your clients achieve their goals, learn what's important to them by developing a strong bond.

What effect will a massive regulatory penalty have on future cases?

Three programs within RBC Wealth Management have catapulted the firm to No. 1 in customer satisfaction.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisor David Massey for its Carlsbad, Calif. office. He placed eighth on On Wall Street's top 40 Advisors Under 40 last year.

A failure by politicians in Washington to reach a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in the next few days -- particularly if Standard & Poor's makes good on its threat to lower the country's AAA sovereign debt rating -- could have “deep and wide reverberations” in credit and equities markets, according to Todd Rosenbluth, an analyst at S&P Equity Research. But bond funds might be unscathed.

Unit investment trusts have their pros and cons but lately investors have been seeing a decided upside in a dividend strategy portfolio.

An overnight poll of 1,000 affluent Americans conducted Thursday evening by UBS Wealth Management Americas found that 40% are waiting out a resolution on the debt ceiling before putting any more money in the markets.

A six-month pilot program, launched this week in the New York City metropolitan area, will match financial advisors and entrepreneurs.

Commenting on Friday’s news from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis that the economy grew an anemic 1.3% in the second quarter, The Conference Board said that from a business cycle perspective, there still aren’t signs that the economy has re-entered a recession. However, the business research organization does not expect GDP to grow more than 2% in the remaining half of the year.

OppenheimerFunds is paying $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit against two of its funds, the Oppenheimer Champion and the Oppenheimer Core Bond funds

As the nation reaches the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling, Fidelity Investments is telling investors not to panic-sell out of stock and bond funds, and to have confidence in money market funds, which have been safeguarded and have complied with stricter holding rules for the past year.

A majority, 63%, of middle-class Americans thinks that the U.S. is in a double-dip recession, the First Command Financial Behaviors Index shows. Fifty-percent thought the U.S. had reverted back into recession last summer.

Fifty-five percent of men focus on planning their financial health at least once a week, compared to 42% of women, a survey by Genworth found. Nonetheless, more women than men believe financial well being is critical to maintaining a balanced life.

European hedge fund advisors will soon be faced with the same challenges – and requirements – as their U.S. peers.

European hedge fund advisors will soon be faced with the same challenges – and requirements – as their U.S. peers.

Outflows from long-term funds totaled $4.58 billion in the week ended July 20, the Investment Company Institute said.

MassMutual has made a number of enhancements to its RetireSMART target-date and lifecycle funds, most notably adding mutual fund options to its target-date series. Previously, only separately managed accounts through a group annuity contract were offered as target-date funds.

The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing next Thursday on the nomination of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.