As Securities America Inc. deals with the sting of losing one of its biggest advisers, the independent broker-dealer continues to tighten its compliance practices and procedures.
As 2008 rolls around, it will bring an important historical marker: The five-year anniversary of the bull market.
Despite the market's current volatility, the love affair between ultrawealthy investors and hedge funds is still torrid, according to a new survey by the Institute for Private Investors, a New York-based association for very wealthy families and their advisers.
Advisers have a new, largely undiscovered and relatively inexpensive online database for prospecting for wealthy clients or for researching the giving habits of those they already have.
Very wealthy or entrepreneurial investors seek advice before they decide to donate to charity.
When wooing Bancroft family heirs to sell him their controlling interest in New York-based Dow Jones & Co. Inc., K. Rupert Murdoch learned that money isn't everything.
Building wealth beyond dollars for clients is more challenging and gratifying than peppering their holdings with the latest hot stock pick or designing a soundly diversified portfolio.
Certified public accountants who serve small businesses are poised to offer 401(k) plans to their clients, said Chandra Bhansali, president of AccountantsWorld LLC, an online company that provides payroll assistance to 110,000 accountants.
More children could be trapped by the dreaded "kiddie tax" this year.
The economy added 94,000 jobs in November, according to a Department of Labor report.
