I was recently at a conference in Nashville this spring, when a guy grabbed my arm and said, "Matt. You have to see this.” He pulled up Zocks on his phone and showed me the transcript from a client ...

The latest inflation report points to a hard truth: The U.S. is not going back to a 2% inflation rate anytime soon. At least not easily. The Fed has some tools to reduce inflation. The question is ...

The midterm election season has entered its final stretch, and Wall Street is busy drawing up game plans for a range of scenarios. Yet, in a fortuitous turn of events, the best outcome for markets is ...

The Labor Department should scrap its proposed alternative-investments rule because it could fundamentally weaken what it means to be an ERISA fiduciary, according to a former top official at the ...

An old idea to increase all Social Security recipients' benefits by the same dollar amount each year is gaining traction, but some say this would be a disaster for middle-income Americans. In 1987, ...

FMG Suite, a marketing platform for financial advisors, has introduced an integration technology called FMG Connect, a technology overlay that allows advisors to bring a variety of advisor tools, data ...

I think we've gotten too comfortable blaming the audience. Nobody reads anymore. Attention spans are shrinking. You have eight seconds before someone decides whether to keep reading. That number gets ...

A federal jury in Alexandria, Va., yesterday convicted Jihoon Park, 52, of Chantilly, Va., on three counts of wire fraud and two counts of bankruptcy fraud, closing out a case that accused the former ...

Full-year profit estimates for the S&P 500 are on the rise, underpinned by the artificial intelligence boom and stronger-than-expected first-half earnings. Almost all companies in the S&P 500 have ...

Over the past year, headlines have been dominated by venture financings at valuations that would have seemed unimaginable only a few years ago. Artificial intelligence (“AI”) companies are raising ...

For its current financial worries, Generation X blames inflation. And the COVID-19 pandemic. And the Great Recession of 2008. And the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. It reads like a laundry list of ...

The era of blockbuster SEC off-channel enforcement actions may be fading. The compliance risk is not. That is the message from Kevin J. Harnisch, partner and co-head of regulation, investigations, ...