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Financial services firms are expected to continue their earnings gains, but loan, asset and earnings expansion may slow somewhat as economic shifts shake up investors and financial firms slow their domestic expansion. Mutual fund management services have increases assets under management steadily, but crisis in overseas economies could influence corporate profits.

The financial services industry has benefitted from the economic expansion of the 1990s in the US as an increased number of borrowers and manageable assets have allowed revenues and profits to soar. In addition, commercial banks have purchased many finance companies in order to diversify away from their core operations. These stocks are timely in 1998, but investors need to focus on the least volatile for the next 12 months.

Associates First Capital Corp. reported an 18% increase in first-quarter earnings from a year ago, to $281 million. The finance company, which was recently spun off from Ford Motor Co., [...]

Finance companies turned in overwhelmingly positive earnings reports for the quarter as they continued to originate loans at a record clip. Well-established companies saw double-digit growth, while relative newcomers to [...]

Associates First Capital Corp., a consumer finance company, reported a 22.4% increase in net income from a year earlier, to $245 million. Earnings per share also increased 22.4%, to 71 [...]

Associates First Capital Corp., the finance company mostly owned by Ford Motor Corp., reported record profits of $230.2 million for the third quarter, up 17%. Per-share earnings rose 18%, to [...]

Associates First Capital Corp., the finance and leasing company in which Ford Motor Co. owns a majority interest, announced record net earnings for the second quarter of 1996. Earnings increased [...]