The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors is planning to take off in a new direction now that Steven P. Kanaly is at the controls.
HighMark Capital Management is refocusing its investment strategy and looking outward for help.
When a bloated William Blair & Co. recalled former managing partner Edgar D. Jannotta to active management in March, it said so in a three-sentence blurb issued to the press at the unfashionable hour of 6:29 p.m.
With so many wealthy, qualified and bewildered ex-dot-comers out of work, so-called pink-slip parties are all the rage in such cities as San Francisco and New York. But a soiree at Hush in New York Thursday turned into a meet-and-greet for financial planners.
The stock market may be in turmoil, but rose-colored glasses certainly make things more bearable. At least that's the feeling one got after listening to remarks Thursday at the Investment Company Institute's general membership meeting in Washington.
Trailing its archrival by more than five years, Fidelity Investments is finally unfurling its own initiative to match investors with financial advisers.
Emplanet aims to make it easier and cheaper for small companies to offer retirement plans
Folio Institutional has rolled out a service that allows its RIA clients to tap into model portfolios run by other advisers who custody at the firm.
Teaching minority high school students about business is more than a job for Allen Shelton. It's a calling.
Once viewed as a facile innovator among the Windy City's financial exchanges, the Chicago Board Options Exchange is suddenly bogged down on several fronts.
Forget about Snoopy dozing on the doghouse roof while the financial world goes by; think junkyard dog instead.
A growing number of companies are opening online supermarkets that feature a smorgasbord of exotic investments to sate the appetites of the newly rich and "moderately sophisticated" for venture capital, hedge fund and IPO deals.
Washington lobbyists for the financial services industry were debating last week whether to pitch in $3 million for an apres-election ad campaign to get the $240 billion tax bill passed before the end of the year.
