Financial Planning

The regulatory structure applicable to financial planners covers the great majority of their services, but the attention paid to enforcing existing regulation can vary and certain consumer protection issues remain, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

A Washington think tank, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, has released a report recommending a tax on financial speculation as a way to help solve the federal government’s long-term budget deficits.

The economic crisis has brought personal finance front and center, for Americans as well as others throughout the world, the ING Retirement Institute Research Institute found.

The migration of foreign-based initial public offerings to U.S.-based stock exchanges is expected to increase in 2011, according to a new study by BDO USA LLP.

MarketRiders has released a 2010 Portfolio Report Card showing that stock and bond market portfolios returned between 4 to 16 percent.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Charles Schwab Investment Management and Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. on Tuesday with making misleading statements regarding the Schwab YieldPlus Fund and failing to establish, maintain and enforce policies and procedures to prevent the misuse of material, nonpublic information.

Three-quarters of millionaire retirees were highly satisfied in their retirement, but satisfaction didn't change much more as net worth rose beyond that, and half of those with less than $250,000 in net worth were highly satisfied in retirement, according to a new survey.

Investors will turn to less credible sources of information about stocks they hold when more credible sources provide unwelcome information, according to a new study.

A former principal in the accounting and wealth management firm Anchin, Block & Anchin has pleaded guilty to causing the Hillary Clinton for President Committee to unwittingly submit false statements to the Federal Election Commission involving tickets to an Elton John concert.

Okay, we'll admit it up front: We are inveterate wordsmiths who love using words to make our points. Over the previous 15 years that we've produced this column, we've even invented a few to describe some financial reporting issues, such as "pfooling of interests," "volatilaphobia" and, more recently, "duh-preciation."