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PIMCO Taps Pickering as SVP, ETF Marketing Chief

MIAMI -- Nearly two years after the collapse of Bear Stearns tipped off a global financial crisis, many people are still frustrated, confused, afraid, angry or resentful. Investors, regulators, legislators and Wall Street executives occasionally look for someone to lash out at, but no one is sure whom to blame or how to prevent such a disaster from happening again.

AllianceBernstein Gives Target-Date Funds 20% Leeway to Manage Excessive Risk

Four bank failures late Friday cost the government an additional $1 billion.

Following a fall in January that sent him to intensive care with numerous broken bones, American Century's James E. Stowers has ceded control of the company he founded in 1958 to co-chairman Richard W. Brown.

F-Squared Investments has created the AlphaSector AllWeather Indexes, which aim to serve as a new tool for retirement income and pension plan sponsor funding requirements by concentrating on minimizing downside risk. F-Squared is offering separately managed accounts tracking them, and is currently exploring other product options with several providers.

Many financial institutions are significantly underestimating the impact that new cost-basis rules will have on them, according to a study by research group TowerGroup and technology vendor Scivantage.

Are recent changes to variable annuities making them harder to sell?

Only 47% of U.S. respondents were living their ideal life in their golden years.

New stock valuation tools could elevate discussions with clients.

While variable annuity sales eke out a 3% gain, all other areas suffer significant declines.

A booming time for exciting variable annuity riders must give way to a new era of stabilization and rationalization.

Many advisors don’t have the practice they thought they would 30 years down the road. That can change—all you have to do is close the gap.

Bank-based advisors produced an average $16,728 in December, up from just $14,712 in November.

Nearly two-thirds of current ETF owners bought the funds on their own. More than a quarter of them have advisors—they’re just not using them.

The company, which filed the claim Tuesday, filed a notice to dismiss all claims without prejudice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Distinct of Georgia on Friday.

Cumberland Offers Safer Strategy

New York State will cease investigation into the December 2007 sale of auction-rate securities by UBS' former head of municipal securities.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd is hoping to introduce a revised regulatory reform bill next week. But with the fate and makeup of a bill unclear, we offer the following frequently asked questions.

Treasury's pricing on direct repurchases dissuades more firms.