The French really are different. Consider how the United States would have dealt with Jérôme Kerviel, the 31-year-old trader at Société Générale who managed to lose more than $7 billion through unauthorized trades in stock index futures.
Registered investment advisers seem to be winning the race to capture the retiring-baby-boomer market, according to Charles "Chip" Roame, managing principal of Tiburon (Calif.) Strategic Advisors LLC, who spoke at the TD Ameritrade Partnership 2008 Conference in Orlando, Fla. this month.
The Investment Management Consultants Association has been attracting more independent planners and advisers.
LPL Financial will increase its spending on monitoring tools and in other areas to make sure it does not experience a repeat of last year's technology glitches, according to its new chief information officer.
Raymond James has won a $1.75 million arbitration claim against Cantor Fitzgerald.
Officials have testified that the time is right for a federal insurance regulator.
Many advisory firms are already invested in and rely on the comprehensive and complex Worldox application for their document management needs. Now another company — Trumpet Inc. — has come out with an add-on program for Worldox that is meant to help simplify the scanning and accuracy of filing documents.
Defined contribution record-kept assets at Fidelity Investments grew 8% last year.
Insurer settles with California over allegedly inappropriate fixed annuity sales.
Cynthia King will be head of products for the the company’s Employer Markets Defined Contribution and Executive Benefits Business segment.
Ameriprise Financial Inc. is calling 10,000 of its financial advisers to its headquarters for technology training on a grand scale.
Despite initial concerns about portability, cost and complexity, annuities in defined contribution plans are slowly gaining momentum, according to a new report.
Complying with new 401(k) fee disclosures will be an arduous task, said a number of leading attorneys.
In this election year, the country deserves a realistic budget, and President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2009 isn't it — even though it predicts a deficit of $407 billion.
A broker who was recently booted from the securities industry has cost Next Financial Group Inc. and Raymond James Financial Services Inc. dearly — with the two firms paying out almost $850,000 to settle cases involving clients who got burned.
Version 7.0 of Junxure, the office management and work flow automation software created by and for financial advisers, will be released in the next few weeks, and it is getting some positive early reviews.
The SEC, FINRA and NASAA will seek input on firms’ best practices to protect senior investors.
A survey finding that arbitration customers do not believe the process is fair was “inconsistent,” FINRA said.
Most participants did not believe that the process was fair to all parties and were not satisfied with the outcome.
