As a nuclear scientist and professor of physics at Yale, my father used to stand in front of his undergraduate classroom holding a skull-crushingly heavy metal ball attached by a cable to the ceiling of the lecture hall. He’d let it swing...

Nebraska-based Securities America, the independent broker/dealer owned by Ladenburg Thalmann, has acquired Wall Street Financial Group, a small IBD based in Fairport, N.Y. The deal comes on the heels of the firm’s purchase of Foothill...

(Bloomberg) -- The world’s largest asset managers have changed their tune after years spent slamming global regulators for trying to treat them like too-big-to-fail banks...

(Bloomberg) -- Trump's not favorite to win the election. If he wins, his administration might achieve little in its early days. Still, markets are woefully underprepared for the possibility of a Trump presidency, Morgan Stanley writes in...

They believe in unicorns. The mutual fund industry is taking on a bigger role in Silicon Valley—and some venture capitalists aren’t happy about it. Fidelity currently holds stakes in 24 unicorn startups—those with $1 billion or more valuation...

(Bloomberg View) -- The Harvard Management Co., which oversees Harvard University’s endowment and other investments, just released its 2016 annual report. Its grim reading: the fund had a negative return of 2 percent and was worth about...

The rich are still getting richer. | Copyright Graeme Robertson, Getty Images The rate at which global financial assets increased in 2015 slowed to 4.9 percent, nearly half of the rate of the previous three years, according to the seventh edit...

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused a millennial boyfriend-and-girlfriend couple of trading on inside information about Apollo Global Management LLC’s purchase of ADT Corp earlier this year...

If advisor technology firms competed over advisor dashboards and client portals in 2014, and for control over the advisor integration hub in 2015, the arms race in 2016 is to help advisors comply with the Department...

Proud to be Great American. Great American Life Insurance Company has introduced a new fee-based fixed indexed annuity with an optional guaranteed income rider that the firm says meets the compensation requirements of the Department of Labor’s...