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On the same day Phyllis Borzi, DOL Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Administration, testified before Congress, Dale Brown, president and CEO of the Financial Services Institute, released a blunt statement on the DOL's proposed fiduciary rule, calling it troubling that we have reached this point in the process, and...

Lawmakers told Phyllis Borzi, head of the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on Tuesday, to repropose the agency's controversial regulation amending the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), because the definition offered is too broad and because EBSA failed to examine the...

After two weeks in Europe, my conclusion: It’s a bubble begging to burst.

Wall Street seemed complacent last week when there was time to spare. But with less than a week before a possible U.S. default, investors are getting jittery.

The biggest evidence yet that investors are concerned about keeping their money safe: they're selling stocks of small companies.

Being first is rarely necessarily and not always a good idea. What matters is not having the latest technology, but rather having the right technology.

Could the U.S. lose its top credit rating even if a deal is reached to raise the debt limit? Market analysts and investors increasingly say yes.

IRA rollovers are a unique asset-gathering opportunity, a report released Monday by McKinsey claims. The problem for wealth managers, McKinsey notes, is that they have largely failed to mobilize their advisory forces, adding that less than half of brokerage clients receive help from their advisors on rollovers.