LOS ANGELES — City National Corp.’s acquisition of Lydian Wealth Management Co. LLC, which closed this month, marks a bold move by the financial services company to make significant inroads into the ultrahigh-net-worth market.
NEW YORK — Financial advisers and their clients aren’t giving the risk of becoming disabled the attention it deserves, according to disability insurance experts.
OTTAWA — An alternative trading system owned by Canadian banks — the announcement of which this month immediately knocked 12% off the share price of the Toronto Stock Exchange’s parent, TSX Group Inc. — threatens to upset Canada’s capital markets.
NEW YORK — Consumers with low credit scores, many of whom already pay high interest rates on subprime loans, may be paying too much for something else: kits that claim to patch up their credit.
LOS ANGELES — In most of the country, wealth managers deal directly with their clients.
The widely publicized dispute between diet guru Robert Atkins’ widow and the trustees of her trust is a cautionary tale for financial advisers and their clients about what can happen in estate cases, observers say.
LPL Financial Services is playing hardball. Officials at the firm reportedly made it clear to competitor National Planning Holdings Inc. that it needs to step away from recruiting registered representatives from Pacific Life Insurance Co. or it will face consequences.
Financial advisers across the country who use Linsco/Private Ledger Corp. as their broker-dealer are raising prices, mostly for new clients.
Although A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle federal charges involving allegations of mutual fund market timing, it still faces a legal battle being waged by one of the brokers involved in the case.
“Four score and seven years” may soon be more recognizable as the typical baby boomer life span than the start of a famous speech.
Like Southern California itself, the Los Angeles wealth management market is vibrant, sprawling, lucrative, growing and fragmented.
Raymond James Financial Services Inc. is adding major clout to its recruiting effort, bringing on board half a dozen recruiters, including two top executives from rival independent-contractor firms, investmentnews.com reported Friday.
Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. has consolidated its three top management consulting businesses to streamline the operations under one name and better compete for high value clients, according to Crain's New York Business.
Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. posted a small drop in first-quarter earnings on an after-tax decline of $1.6 million in the income from its merchant portfolio and its ownership interest in limited partnerships net of minority interests.
Conseco, Inc. in Carmel, Ind. today reported $14.6 in net operating income for the first quarter of 2007, down from $55.8 million for the same period a year ago.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. will pay $7.9 million for its failure to provide best execution to certain retail orders for over-the-counter securities, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced today.
Fidelity Investments, in cooperation with Oracle Corp. and Emerging Information Systems Inc., has created two web-based customer relationship management and financial planning systems for registered investment advisers, the Boston-based firm announced today.
Legg Mason Inc. posted a 15% increase in net income as increased advisory fees drove assets under management to record levels.
As part of effort to spiff up its fee business, the ING Advisors broker-dealers have cut fees that their advisers pay for two key advisory offerings.
Deutsche Bank reported $12.9 billion in net revenues for the first quarter, a 20% gain from the same period in 2006, thanks to record sales in its corporate and investment bank division.
