HighTower Advisors LLC, a dually-registered firm that has been successful in luring talent from wirehouses, today announced that it is furthering its expansion efforts by hiring two recruiters who will focus on the Midwest and Western regions of the country.
UBS will rebuild its reputation and revenue by marketing the advisory strength of its brokers and minting better products for wealthy investors, according to its new CEO
Elliot Weissbluth calls suit an intimidation tactic designed to deter other advisers from leaving
HighTower Advisors LLC last Tuesday announced that it had snapped up another team of advisers, this time from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC.
After weeks of discussions, UBS AG has announced a reorganization of its wealth management business to help integrate the unit with its financial adviser business.
The dollar touched a level below 86 yen for the first time this year and headed for a third straight monthly loss as a government report showed U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter.
Jeffrey Sica spent more than four years plotting his move from Wells Fargo Advisors LLC to independence but stumbled a day before he planned to give notice.
In the two days since the Securities and Exchange Commission formally began seeking comment on establishing a fiduciary duty for retail investment advice, more than 70 individuals have submitted statements ranging from one line to several paragraphs.
The SEC must be expecting a whole lot of opinions on whether the agency should revamp the fiduciary standard: the regulator is supersizing its comment period to cope with what's coming
TD Ameritrade Institutional reported today that it has attracted more breakaway advisers to the firm during the first nine months of its current fiscal year than it did in all of fiscal 2009.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. could oversee registered investment advisers through a separate governance structure, according to Richard Brueckner, a longtime member of the self-regulatory organization's board.
Registered investment advisers are starting to increase compensation levels at their firms — and are also spending more on employee benefits — according to a survey from TD Ameritrade Institutional.
Few historians, market participants or former regulators say they expect the current financial reform bill to put an end to financial crises
The number of U.S. stocks in Berkshire's $51 billion stock portfolio slipped to 33 as of March 31, compared with 39 a year earlier and 37 in 2008. Here are some of the notable reductions —and eliminations— Berkshire's portfolio.
Congress is poised to boost significantly funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission so that the agency can fulfill scores of new financial-regulatory-reform responsibilities.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro told a congressional panel last Tuesday that the SEC is poised to take on the scores of directives mandated by the financial-reform bill that President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday.
The corn ETF, like Teucrium's other ETFs in registration, uses staggered futures contracts to track the current price of the commodity.
All salaries and commissions have been terminated, except for a “limited” number of workers
Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services has a neutral 12-month fundamental outlook for the semiconductor industry.
