Practice management

Only four in 10 women say they develop a budget and save accordingly and less than 40% say they want help from a financial advisor to develop a lifetime or retirement income plan. Most are unsure of where to get help or the costs involved.

The trust company highlights its value add in a series of upcoming print and web ads.

Chubb seeks to facilitate discussion on emerging class of risks.

In an ironic twist, the Fed Reserve — one of the most derided regulators for its failure to prevent the financial crisis — may emerge from regulatory reform with its bank supervisory powers intact and authority enhanced.

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The majority of dollars that wealthy investors formerly allocated to workplace-based retirement accounts like 401(k)s and 403(b)s are now being poured into individual retirement accounts, according to Cogent Research LLC.

Study finds gradual shift from retirement savings to Social Security.

The banking industry is scrambling to devise a new strategy to weaken the regulatory reform bill after Republicans failed to cut a bipartisan deal before the legislation advanced to the Senate floor Thursday.

Although some of the “most profound” proposals in regulatory reform made during the wake of the economic collapse are now not likely to happen, FINRA's Ketchum said the financial services industry has a responsibility to act aggressively at detecting fraud before it cleans up the mess at the end.

Retirement and uninsured medical expenses are the most pressing financial concerns for Americans, according to a survey conducted for the American Institute of CPAs by Harris Interactive.

Investor confidence among millionaire rose to its highest level in more than two years as optimism about the economy increased.

Most of the trades involved a single penny-stock company.

Sen. Kohl applauds DOL, SEC providing more information to employers and investors alike.

Seven of 10 workers expect they’ll need a job in retirement; only 23% of retirees currently have jobs.

Bernie Madoff's legacy is still influencing the regulatory community.

As many single family offices remain concerned about their long-term sustainability, money is pouring into multi-family offices, according to the Family Wealth Alliance.

The Newsweek correspondent said “Obama is trying to rally populist sentiment against Wall Street."

Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts says the proposed reforms would treat mutual funds like banking products.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Inspector General found that at least 33 SEC employees and contractors used government computers to view pornographic images in the past five years.

It appears the best way to broker a compromise on a hot-button issue in the regulatory reform bill is to study it. That, at least, is the approach taken in Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's 1,300-plus-page bill, which includes more than two dozen studies on topics from industrial loan companies to contingent capital to the implementation of the Volcker Rule.