Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is entering into the recruiting wars with its guns blazing and is creating a potential pay package for new advisers that will match that of its rival Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.'s Global Wealth Management unit.
The two trustees of Medical Capital Holdings Inc.'s private placements, Wells Fargo & Co. and The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., have been sued by investors seeking class action status.
A rep formerly affiliated with First Allied Securities Inc. says he will fight SEC charges that he churned client accounts and made unauthorized and unsuitable trades for two institutional clients, resulting in commissions of $14.2 million.
The sudden resignation last week of John Sykes, chairman of GunnAllen Holdings Inc., has raised questions about the future of the company and its broker-dealer, GunnAllen Financial Inc.
In an apparent first, a registered representative and his individual practice have been sued in a potential class action stemming from oil-and-gas private placements that the SEC claims were fraudulent.
The real estate boom and bust is hanging over many independent broker-dealers and their financial advisers as the market for non-traded REITs soured this year.
Financial advisers with Securities America Inc. continued to sell offerings of allegedly faulty private placements after an executive at the firm sounded the alarm bell about the deals last year, according to a recently filed lawsuit.
They used to ride desks and flog stocks, but now some Wall Street refugees are choosing to walk a beat and chase bad guys.
At the same time that LPL Holdings Inc. and the three broker-dealers it bought from Pacific Life Insurance Co. were filing suit against the insurer, LPL was reaching out to its advisers to reassure them that the dispute wouldn't affect their businesses.
They used to ride desks and flog stocks, but now some Wall Street refugees are choosing to walk a beat and chase bad guys.
