In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s office charges UBS Financial Services, Inc. with leading inappropriate clients into its InsightOne brokerage program...
The Vanguard Group will offer ETF shares for its new FTSE All-World ex USA Index Fund, which is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2007,...
Nearly one-third (27%) of online investors plan to focus some or all of their end-of-year investment gains on retirement and 22% plan to put them into savings.
Prudential Insurance Company of America has agreed as part of a lawsuit settlement over the use of contingent commissions that it will now disclose all broker compensation to...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2007-3 containing the 2006 Cumulative List of Changes in Plan Qualification Requirements for plan administrators to consider when submitting a request...
The 2006 ShareBuilder Small Business Annual Retirement Trend (SBART) Survey found that 63% of respondents do not offer retirement benefits to their employees and more than half (63%)...
In addition to savings and investment considerations, a new survey suggests that part of a healthy retirement plan will include a consideration of early retirement because not all...
Under an agreement with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Prudential Insurance Company of America will eliminate the payment of contingent commissions to brokers on group insurance...
A vote by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week is expected to start easing the accounting rules governing how closely small public companies have to...
Pacific West Financial Consultants, Inc., a SEC registered investment advisor with licensed financial advisors throughout the United States, has added MKG Capital Advisors, Ltd. to its offering of...
Mandatory retirement will be illegal in Canada beginning Tuesday, and a new survey finds that this will have quite an effect on the Canadian working population.
About seven in 10 advisers surveyed by Fidelity believe their business will be a major beneficiary of the Pension Protection Act (PPA), predicting growth between 10% and 49%...
A federal judge in Chicago has certified as a class action a lawsuit against Aon Corp. over allegations 401(k) participants lost ten of millions of dollars when its...
While the top two income tiers of Americans approaching retirement have comparable assets, those classified in a new study as affluent are still focused on accumulating assets and...