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Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee teamed with insurance agent groups Tuesday to attack U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) efforts to apply a uniform fiduciary standard to investment product sales.

Fiduciary360 (fi360), a resource for investment fiduciary education, announced its opposition Monday to elements of a new bill drafted by a GOP House member that would authorize one or more self-regulatory organizations (SROs) to oversee registered investment advisors.

The House Financial Services Committee on Thursday released a draft bill that would establish one or more self-regulatory organizations (SRO) to oversee investment advisors.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Wednesday issued an investor alert warning against scams that promote gold stocks.

The special panel's goal is lofty: concoct a deal both parties will embrace to slash federal deficits by a mammoth $1.5 trillion or more over the next decade.

The new federal budget deal resolution may not refer directly to private health insurance, but it could have major effects on the health market, an analyst says.

Many U.S. public corporations experienced relatively little immediate impact from the first say-on-pay proxy season; however, most companies are either planning or considering changes to their executive pay-setting process and overall preparations for 2012’s proxy season, according to a new survey by Towers Watson.

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...