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Money market mutual funds could continue to pay low yields, even after a future rise in interest rates turns their income around.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is promising to take another look at revising or eliminating 12b-1 fees this year, now that the financial crisis seems to be abating.

Although the Pension Protection Act of 2006 has gone a long way toward addressing many of the issues plaguing the defined contribution system, a report from State Street Corp. said that more has to be done to ensure participants adequately save for retirement.

Financial planners, watch your backs. Financial Engines, a retirement plan advisor co-founded by a Nobel Prize winner, completed an initial public offering Monday that blew the doors off the IPO market and affirmed investor belief in a business model that offers low-cost sophisticated retirement advice to individual investors.

Instead of gaining from the lessons that behavioral finance has to offer, much of the industry has treated it as a parlor game.

You will almost certainly need to hire new, younger advisors at some point in your career. Do you know where to look—or better yet, what to look for?

The firm calls into question the emphasis about the budget deficit and the threat of a double-dip recession.

As the defined contribution model replaces the defined benefit plan as the dominant retirement savings option, State Street sees room for improvement.

Donor-advised funds have gained in popularity as more private foundations have seen the benefits of the funds over the complexities of running their own foundation.

Buyers of long-term-care insurance chose cheaper policies and more inflation protection in 2009, according to research from the AALTCI.

The House Financial Services Committee plans to probe the regulatory failures that led up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers after a bankruptcy examiner released a damning report last week on the investment bank’s accounting manipulations.

SEI is offering enhanced, online portfolio and account monitoring services for wealth managers, to help them deal with increasing regulations concerning account reviews. SEI, portfolio monitoring, Richard Kardys

New group brings together more than 300 of the firm's professionals who specialize in either corporate or public finance banking

SIFMA and CMSA back Garrett's follow-up bill

Sen. Richard Shelby raised concerns with bankers on Thursday that "too big to fail" would survive if a proposed $50 billion fund to help unwind failing financial institutions remains in the Senate's latest regulatory reform bill.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair opened the door Thursday to extending blanket deposit insurance coverage on business accounts, but disagreed with another regulator's push to count more loan-loss reserves as capital.

American investors remain confused about this economic recovery, according to monthly data from Morningstar.

The Investment Company Institute is on board with many government reforms intended to make money market funds more secure, but not all of them.

SEI is offering enhanced, online portfolio and account monitoring services for wealth managers, to help them deal with increasing regulations concerning account reviews.

The unwinding of the Federal Reserve's liquidity programs is unlikely to boost the sickly yields on tax-free money market funds, participants say.