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As more banks prepare to charge for basic products, a carrot-and-stick strategy with customers may work better than a more punitive approach.

MetLife Bank, a unit of the MetLife Inc., has catapulted from relative obscurity in banking to become the seventh-largest depository and a contender in mortgages.

Each year, Janney Capital Markets produces a list of events it deems reasonably likely could shake the markets. Check out the surprises Janney expects could make for a bumpy ride in 2011.

A case brought by Oppenheimer & Co. failed to prove allegations that Citigroup Global Markets Inc. unlawfully raided its firm of nine high producing brokers, a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority panel has ruled.

In an SEC filing, Grail Advisors, a provider of actively managed exchange-traded funds launched in January 2009, indicates it may be in the process of being acquired. Should that fail, it may liquidate its actively managed ETFs.

A lot of solo advisory practices are going to start looking for ways to add scale, but what are the risks and how can you get started?

It is one thing for a registered investment advisor to buy an investment-planning product to streamline operations at his or her practice, but smoothly integrating that product is often a much bigger production.

Are your clients’ children too confident?

Joyce, a former 3Com executive, helped power global distribution of the Palm Pilot.

Consumers’ perception of their own bank remains strong, while overall sentiment about the industry remains sour.

A new survey concludes that nearly half of boomers have no financial plans in place in case they live longer than expected.

Two industry veterans have struck out on their own to start a new fixed income broker-dealer firm.

Janus on Thursday announced the launch of the Janus Global Bond Fund and the Janus Emerging Markets Fund. They are the firm’s first standalone strategies in the global credit and emerging market equity categories.

Don Schreiber Jr., the chief executive officer and founder of WBI, said the funds’ strategies previously were only available to high-net-worth investors through separately managed accounts.

No sooner did Build America Bonds become orphaned than they caught fire.

By comparison, the S&P 500 rose 15.06%.

Vanguard, BlackRock, Schwab and State Street are deadlocked in a fierce price competition.

Morningstar honors Bob Goldfarb and David Poppe.

Since August, the funding status for the typical U.S. corporate pension plan has posted a more than 13 percentage point improvement, marking the largest four-month positive swing for the BNY Mellon Pension Summary Report since it was created in 2006.

Putnam Investments has promoted Robert Alan to head of North American consultant relations and Keith Thomas to lead its international consultant relations.