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The Swiss company plans to expand its wealth management business in South America.

Brokerage firms continue to talk a good game when it comes to social media, but few are actually doing anything about it, and that may turn out to be a mistake.

Barclays Wealth appointed David Lewis to the newly created position of managing director and head of banking, Americas.

The service will offer actionable steps that participants can take to improve savings.

Financial Executives International has written to congressional leaders criticizing President Obama’s proposal to close foreign tax credit loopholes in exchange for making the research & development tax credit permanent.

Kathleen Kennedy has joined Boston-based Columbia Management where she will head the firm’s consultant relations efforts. Her role with the asset manager is effective immediately, a Sept. 20 announcement said.

Financial Accounting Standards Board technical director Russell G. Golden has been appointed a member of the board, filling one of three vacancies on the newly expanded panel.

Even some of the commissioners who approved the proposal suggested it wasn't an ironclad obstacle to gussying up complex balance sheets.

Investment firm introduces two white papers and provides resources for independents looking to grow through acquisition.

MSSB has hired two New York City advisers that manages $250 million of client assets.

The Senate approved legislation on Thursday that would provide $12 billion in tax breaks to small businesses, along with a $30 billion lending fund.

Tapping Elizabeth Warren as a top administration official charged with setting up the new consumer protection bureau will help her avoid a tough confirmation battle, but may offer as many risks as rewards.

While fiduciary rules, 12-b-1 changes and new ADV reporting requirements are on everyone’s radars, most advisors aren’t doing much to prepare.

At a Senate Banking Committee hearing, supporters of the plan argued that covered bonds are an untapped channel that could supply additional liquidity to the sluggish mortgage markets.

The lack of appointments to key jobs created by Dodd-Frank makes you wonder what the administration is thinking, and more specifically how much power Geithner is amassing.

Industry participants say brokers have made a lot of progress toward meeting new cost-basis reporting requirements from the Internal Revenue Service, which take effect in January 2011.

Almost three-quarters of voters are worried their savings won’t last retirement.

While the investment industry may be in two minds about how the SEC should proceed, investors are in no doubt that advisors should act in their best interest.

U.K. firm is looking to increase U.S. presence, but it’s still not aiming for sheer size.

Senate Democrats largely supported the idea of appointing Elizabeth Warren as the temporary head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with one key exception — Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd — who joined Republicans in arguing such a move would be a "mistake."