The black swan was meant to be a rallying cry for preparedness. Instead it has become the opposite: a loathsome excuse for lack of planning by those who should know better.
Advisers are lagging banks and retail brokerages when it comes to providing useful tools on smart phones and tablets — and the average investor notices it.
Rogers says investors should jump on stocks, particularly those in the energy sector; bullion lacks 'any real yield or value'
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When it comes to brokerage firm websites, designed to inform investors about their transactions, one of the first things one would think they'd get right would be providing them with their account information. Apparently, they don't.
The justices today turned away an appeal by 17 current and former company financial advisers who sought to press a class action race-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch.
Hang on for a rough ride as the European sovereign-debt crisis continues
A special group of financial advisers who have demonstrated exceptional charitable leadership were honored last Wednesday at the fifth annual Community Leadership Awards
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking public comment on financial products aimed especially at members of the military.
Even 3,000 miles away, Tim Pinkney, an adviser with the Savant Group in Citrus Heights, Calif., deeply felt the shock waves of 9/11
It is difficult to tell what impact the loss will have on the Pershing LLC unit of BNY Mellon
The company's contract is an actively managed portfolio of investments that will send 2% each year to one or more charities that the investor chooses.
Financial advisers who broach the topic of philanthropy with clients don't have to know how to reforest denuded land in Moldova or how to structure a scientific advisory board
A research firm predicts that the number of B-Ds in operation could drop from 4,540 to 4,000 by 2014. And bear in mind, that's a net figure. Meaning? A lot more than 540 brokerages will get bought or go belly up in the next few years.
TradePMR looking to attract larger RIAs from wirehouses, CEO says
Three former executives of defunct brokerage GunnAllen Financial Inc. agreed to pay $55,000 to settle government allegations that they failed to protect confidential customer information as the firm was going under.
Consolidation in the securities industry continues to build, with regional broker-dealer and clearing firm Sterne Agee & Leach of Birmingham making an offer to buy SWS Group Inc. of Dallas.
Less than 24 hours after revealing that they had received an unsolicited takeover proposal from the Sterne Agee Group Inc., officials for SWS Group Inc. — a Dallas-based firm with several hundred advisers—unanimously rejected the offer.
Scores of broker-dealers were bruised and battered last year, with dozens of small and midsize firms closing their doors amid desperate — and mostly futile — searches for much-needed capital.
Agency finalizes controversial rule calling for level-fee arrangements; new scheme also greenlights computer models
