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Since May 2012, Edward Jones has hired 1,250 military veterans as financial advisors. The firm, through its FORCES program, maintains an 11 percent military veteran ratio, and is on pace to hire 500 veteran...
The Securities Exchange Commission remains undecided on whether or how to move forward on a uniform fiduciary standard, despite a game plan outlined earlier this year by Chair Mary Jo White that aimed to have a decision by the end of the year...
Sallie Krawcheck, the former Bank of America executive and chair of Ellevate, says she’s warming up to socially responsible investing. “I have to tell you: after years of dismissing values-based investing as a fringe activity, I have changed my v...
Washington Wealth Management added another wirehouse alum to its advisor roster on Thursday. Nadia Dickinson, a 30-year veteran of Morgan Stanley with $100 million in assets under management, affiliated her newly formed practice, Dickinson Graham...
Just in case you haven't gotten your fill yet of all things midterm elections, Vox has come up with everything you need to know from Tuesday's big win for the GOP in 40 easy maps and charts. Go here.
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There could be a big difference between who you vote for and who you would actually put money on. The prediction markets, such as Predictious and Betfair, allow gamblers to do just that. On Predictious.com, for example, users can bet bitcoins bas...
State regulators’ enforcement actions were down almost 13 percent in 2013, yet the average length of incarceration for securities crimes more than doubled.
State securities regulators instituted 2,184 total enforcement actions (including adminis...
Calamos Funds has created an online quiz illustrating the diversity of emerging markets and the type of exposure investors get when investing in a fund or ETF that tracks an emerging market index. The eight-question quiz isn't as interesting as f...
It turns out that craft beer isn’t just for American hipsters, as customers in emerging markets are demanding more and more high-end brews. The average person in Vietnam now drinks 40 liters of beer a year, up from just 3 liters in 1995. Investor...
