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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced Thursday it hired Lisa Cregan, a former UBS manager, to run its brokerage offices in Houston.

SEC Chairman notes there have been net redemptions from equity mutual funds every single week for the past four months.

Thanks to record low Aa corporate discount bond rates and declines in domestic and international stocks, U.S. corporate pension plans saw their funding status dip more than 5.6% to 71.3% in August, BNY Mellon Asset Management said.

Whether you were in the U.S., Canada or Europe during the financial meltdown, the economic effects were felt by every investor class, which in turn, is now forcing many to find alternative means to curb risk and diversify their investment portfolios.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Colorado investment adviser with deceiving elderly clients about the safety of putting their money into hedge funds.

The SEC is likely to revise its approach to circuit breakers to include a “careful review” of price bands that limit how far up or down the price of a stock can move at any given time.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will kick off its much-awaited series of hearings on the municipal market this month, holding the first on Tuesday, Sept. 21, in San Francisco.

JPMorgan Securities picked up a $3-million team of veteran advisors from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Argues it wasn't the only money market fund to break the buck.only

New report by Allianz says U.S. pension market is expected to see slower growth.

Pinnacle Capital Markets has once again has been slapped with a fine for inadequate anti-money laundering and customer identification procedures involving foreign investors using its direct market access system.

At a hearing on "too big to fail" institutions, commissioners questioned if the new systemic risk council would have the political will to break up risky firms and raised concerns about "living wills."

The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday announced that it has adopted a temporary rule requiring municipal advisers to register with it by Oct. 1 in order to comply with the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

SEC reprieve for money funds that would require them to approve of the credit rating agencies they must use to determine whether a security is eligible for investment.

Members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission sought to overturn the conventional wisdom that Wells Fargo's purchase of Wachovia was done without government assistance.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former senior accounting professionals at headphone maker Koss Corp. with accounting fraud, books-and-records violations, and related misconduct arising from the embezzlement of more than $30 million from the company.

The FDIC chairman said the agency would soon publish an interim rule on its new resolution authority over systemically important banking companies and certain nonbanks.

Market volatility means many entrepreneurs are focusing on the survival of their businesses ahead of their retirement plans.

With the SEC’s fiduciary-standard study period drawing to a close, SIFMA and FPC comment letters take up familiar arguments.

UBS hired Jerry Pascucci as head of alternative investments.