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Plug "Roth IRA conversion" into a search engine, and it will spit out online calculators and stories seeking to explain whether the move is worthwhile.

Both IBKR and OXPS are major players in the once-again booming options markets, as well as in equities, futures and FOREX.

Last week's decision by The Charles Schwab Corp. to offer its own ETFs commission-free could result in less product education for financial advisers and investors, say rival ETF providers.

The first Charles Schwab -branded exchange-traded funds launch tomorrow, Nov. 3, and Schwab is offering free, uncapped trading to its customers who buy in online - essentially creating a platform that enables retail investors to dollar cost average with ETFs.

More than half of U.S. retail chains posted October sales that fell short of Wall Street's heightened expectations, raising doubts about a widespread recovery for the holiday season.

Because even as the Supreme Court hears Justice Department lawyers argue about excessive mutual fund fees, the nefarious financial arsonists supposedly guilty for burning down the financial system have succeeded in cutting costs for consumers to levels that couldn't have been imagined even a few years back.

Blogs Fund Watch The Fund Watch blog will keep an eye on the movers and shakers in the Canadian investment fund industry.

On the day before it is set to roll out its first set of exchange-traded funds, The Charles Schwab Corp.

You can never be too careful when getting financial advice from anyone other than your most trusted advisers, and the story of my friend Margo's mother reveals that all too clearly.

Stifel Financial Corp., which has been expanding its Stifel Nicolaus & Co. retail- brokerage business aggressively, is about to make a push into serving registered investment advisers.

The investment advisory division of Raymond James Financial Services Inc. has raised the minimum level of assets under management for new clients to $50 million, from $30 million.

Eighty-four percent of workers who are automatically enrolled in a 401 plan stick with the plan, up from 77% in 2007, Charles Schwab found.

What began as two contested races in Ulysses' general election Nov. 3 has dropped to one.

At Razorfish we used to say: " Everything that can be digital, will be! " We built a Web site for Charles Schwab that could execute stock transactions faster and better than your broker--and unlike selling physical widgets, adding customers didn't cost Schwab anything! We predicted that digital technology would do almost anything faster, cheaper ...

Mark Calvey talks to Chuck . Charles Schwab's ads relentlessly exhort us to "Talk to Chuck." Few of us actually get to do that.

More bad news for those in the finance industry. The latest reports and rumors of layoffs are at Citigroup Inc.

The opening of Charles Schwab & Co . Inc.'s new flagship office at 100 Post St. in San Francisco drew an illustrious crowd on Tuesday.

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., one of the nation's leading financial services firms, has relocated its flagship San Francisco branch office to 100 Post St.

The Dow has jumped the psychological hurdle of 10,000, the stock market is up about 60 percent since the beginning of the year, and yet regular-Joe investors are still dragging their heels.

Beware of overwhelmingly bearish sentiment and crowded trades. Concerns about the U.S. dollar, inflation and monetary policies have gotten ahead of themselves and are eclipsing the facts, according to Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.