Montana-based D.A Davidson plans to acquire Crowell Weedon, a big brokerage run out of Los Angeles. How big? The combo will create the largest full-service IBD in the western U.S.
Group from Connecticut has $3.7 million annual production.
Beginning in 2015, firm to charge its reps for outside supervision.
Plans to complete up to eight such deals this year.
Two vets say firm's difficulties weren't to blame for departure in '06.
Action related to Provident Royalties, found to be a Ponzi scheme.
Raymond James retires brand ahead of schedule
Citi analyst upgrades Schwab to buy, boosts price targets for LPL, TD Ameritrade.
Firm will no longer allow one-person shops to supervise themselves.
Finra has gotten the go-ahead to issue a monthly letter divulging complaints against reps. Not surprisingly, this doesn't sit well with some brokers.
Broker-dealers, feeling the heat from regulators, are changing how they sell alternatives. Bruce Kelly has all the details.
Barnaby Grist was a high-profile — and defining — hire for Cetera Financial in 2010. A little more than three years later, the head of the brokerage's wealth management unit is leaving due to personal reasons.
Finra has charged brokerage chief Tommy Belesis and his firm, John Thomas Financial, with fraud in a front-running scheme to make $1 million on a penny stock. Bruce Kelly has the story.
Investors' approval of their advisers continues to increase after dropping sharply in the aftermath of the credit crisis. Liz Skinner tells why.
Stop us if you heard this one before: Finra has banned a broker who allegedly convinced scores of NFL stars to go into an unsuitable investment (this time, a casino). And yes, the deal went bust.
Commonwealth's Wheeler moving up; LPL adds Morgan Stanley's Oroschakoff to be new risk officer.
