Recently added articles from Investment News:
At the Bell.(News)
Nov 02, 2009 ... Firms to offer target date index BrightScope, a 401(k) data and analytics firm, today is announcing a partnership with Target Date Analytics LLC to launch the BrightScope On Target Index. The index will allow plan sponsors and advisers to benchmark the target date funds in their ...
Rogue trading on rise; Getting ahead of the game becoming a pervasive pastime again.(News)
Nov 02, 2009 ... Byline: Aaron Elstein Four days after Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam was arrested on insider-trading charges, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman appeared before a hotel ballroom full of colleagues and suggested a clever way to profit. His advice: Buy stock in ...
"Pay czar' compensation model is a good start.(News)
Nov 02, 2009 ... KENNETH FEINBERG, President Obama's "pay czar, last week capped and restructured the salaries of top executives at seven embattled corporations that have not yet repaid the help they received from the federal government last year. The top 25 executives at these ...
Is the bloom off the rose for American Funds? In current market, firm's fixed-income aversion makes its products a harder sell, advisers say.(News)
Nov 02, 2009 ... Byline: David Hoffman The love affair financial advisers have enjoyed with American Funds has cooled. Although advisers once made American Funds the biggest mutual fund family by long-term fund assets, driving assets to more than $1.19 trillion in October 2007, ...
Two top financial advisers flee AIG's Royal Alliance; Wary of management, Chornyak bolts to Commonwealth, while Warren joins Geneos Wealth.(News)
Nov 02, 2009 ... Byline: Bruce Kelly Two long-established advisers have left Royal Alliance Associates Inc., one of the broker-dealers in the AIG Advisor Group, citing mistrust of management after AIG's top executive elected to hold onto rather than sell the broker-dealer network. ...