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Private fund advisors with more than $1 billion in assets under supervision have a greater need for monitoring, especially after lessons learned during the recent financial crisis, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. So the commission proposed requiring all registered investment advisors that work with one or more private funds to complete a new document, the Form PF. Registered investment advisors who work with hedge and private equity funds, among others, would be required to file the new form periodically.

Over the last couple of years, HighTower has built a nationwide partnership of financial advisory practices by luring in the cream of the crop among registered reps and independent advisors with its open-architecture setup. Now, it has created a group investment solutions division, and put Matthias Paul Kuhlmey in charge.

While Americans have remain committed to saving for retirement through their 401(k)s, a significant portion of households owning financial investments, 37%, have become more conservative in their saving, asset allocation and choice of retirement age, according to a survey of 3,000 households at the end of 2010 by the Investment Company Institute.

The herd is moving in one direction again, and I’m getting offers from experts to talk about the joyous event.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Bart Chilton told insittutional investors Wednesday that opponents of changes wrought by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act are trying to block implementation of resulting rules by starving regulators of funding.

Vantis Life’s new recurring premium was up 22% to $2.7 million in 2010, up from $2.2 million, mainly through sales at banks, according to Craig Simms, the company’s senior vice president.

To calm frightened investors pulling out of muni-bond funds, Vanguard, which manages $115 billion in municipal bonds, has been tweeting excerpts from a new research commentary "California is Not Greece."

The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority fined the firm $1.77 million on Wednesday, bringing its total fines against the firm this month to $13.97 million.

Companies are not following the leads of consumers. In the enterprise, Apple’s iPad tablets and iPhone smartphones are gaining ground against mobile devices based on Google’s Android operating system. And the biggest adopters of iPads and iPhones are financial services firms, according to a new activation report.

The Boston-company attracted assets from 146 breakaway brokers last year as average assets per breakaway increased by nearly 50% from 2009.

As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act approaches its one-year anniversary, the focus on the law is shifting from the issues of extending coverage and insurance reforms to the structure of the upcoming insurance exchanges, accountable care organizations and the definition of "essential benefits."

Five other world-class asset managers, including PIMCO and Wellington, are sub-advising the fund along with Hancock.

Investors in tax-exempt debt should be cautious about heeding recent reports about the possibility of widespread bankruptcy and default in the municipal market, and stop running away from solid, safe investments because of distorted opinions in the media.

In taking a piecemeal approach to selling problem assets, First Midwest Bancorp Inc. seems to be pleasing only itself.

The absence of banking issues from the State of the Union speech was logical two years after the crisis, but the President's silence on areas still in turmoil disappointed lawmakers.

The Spectrem Affluent Investor Confidence Index rose five points in January.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Long Island investment adviser with defrauding his customers a total of $8 million after inflating the value of their holdings through a practice called cross-trading.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Michael V. Dunn said Wednesday that the regulator cannot fulfill all its new duties under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act unless it gets more funding.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act faces a “serious threat” and “potential undoing” ­under Republican-proposed spending cuts, House Democrats warned Tuesday.

The number of banks has already been cut in half, and it's no stretch to imagine that total being halved again in coming years. The question for policymakers is does this matter? If it does, what should officials be doing today to prevent that tomorrow?