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Advisors put money on non-U.S. markets leading the global economy out of the recession.

With the tax deadline approaching, investors are deciding whether to convert from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA. But before they do, advisors have one more conversion strategy: the “charitable offset” strategy.

High-yield can offer two things clients desperately want: a decent return and a healthy safety net they can’t get from stocks.

In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Charles R. Schwab, chairman of Charles Schwab Corp., spelled out the grave danger that the near-zero fed funds rate poses for senior citizens.

Franklin Promotes Bolt to Chief Operating Officer

NEW YORK -- Designated market makers are disappointed the Securities and Exchange Commission didn't grant them an exception to the new rule banning short sales on plummeting stocks, but they are already anticipating lucrative trading opportunities just before a stock hits the rule's sweet spot.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent rejection of the fund fee case Jones v. Harris Associates will make it easier for shareholders to sue mutual funds for excessive fees, but it won't make it easier for them to take an excessive fee case to trial, let alone win.

SEC May Put Cap on Derivatives Exposure

UMB Fund Services has renamed its Alternative Investment Services division JD Clark & Company, the company said today.

The Hartford Finanical Services Group Inc. has paid $3.4 billion to the U.S. Treasury to repurchase preferred stock it issued under the department’s Capital Purchase Program.

A new study estimates that only 16 % of small businesses in the United States are using social media sites to promote themselves.

Jamie Dimon delivered a message that some pundits and lawmakers have been waiting for a while to hear from the country's bankers: an apology for helping ruin the economy.

As the distressed-asset market begins to stabilize, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is shaking up the way it handles failed banks and their assets.

RIA buys wirehouse reps' businesses and gives them a stake in the company.

Confidence among millionaire investors rose in March, according to a Spectrem Group monthly survey, even as confidence amongst affluent investors declined.

UMB Fund Services has renamed its Alternative Investment Services division JD Clark & Company, the company said today.

Health savings accounts (HSAs) are unlikely to cover healthcare costs in retirement unless contribution limits on the plans are raised and interest rates rise, the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) said in a new report.

Depending on who you ask, the executive changes at the firm are either business as usual, or another indication of the Morgan Stanley culture overtaking Smith Barney.

Charles Schwab Corp. violated federal laws when it failed to get shareholder approval before putting approximately half the assets of its YieldPlus mutual fund into uninsured mortgage-backed securities, a federal judge ruled.

In a case involving two former employees of Fidelity Investments, a federal judge has ruled that the Sarbanes-Oxley law protecting whistle-blowers at publicly traded companies also extends to mutual fund firms.