Congress sent the Dodd-Frank legislation to President Barack Obama Thursday.
Officials for Silver Bridge Advisors LLC said today they to plan to purchase a San Francisco-area investment adviser, adding that their firm has created a separate entity to better market itself to wealthy families and family offices.
The sweeping financial-regulatory-reform legislation that President Barack Obama will sign this week represents anything but closure for Wall Street.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management's effort to expand its small defined-contribution business by offering custom target date funds has caught the attention of advisers.
Gitterman & Associates, a 10-person team in Georgia, has found a new home.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is close to proposing upgrades to Part 2 of the Form ADV, the primary disclosure document that clients receive from investment advisers.
Just how out-of-touch can Lloyd Blankfein be?
Fixed-income fund managers likely will face heightened margin requirements when trading privately negotiated derivatives under the new financial services reform bill.
A new tool that is marketed as being able to help identify the most likely mutual funds to outperform the market promises to stir up debate among both financial advisers and providers.
Broker-dealers are in favor of several proxy proposals that urge the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. to become more transparent, but they doubt Finra will implement any of the ideas even if a majority of members approve them.
For financial advisers, the epicenter of the Deepwater Horizon disaster may not be the Gulf of Mexico but Whiting, Ind.
The tide is high, as house sales in the Hamptons surge; plowing market profits 'into real estate'
UBS Financial Services Inc. said it hired Thomas G. McLoughlin, former chief executive officer of National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., as head of municipal bond research for its Wealth Management Americas unit.
Congressional negotiators today approved the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. financial regulation since the Great Depression, reshaping oversight of Wall Street.
Bank of America Corp. is re-branding its online-discount-brokerage platform under the Merrill Lynch imprint in an attempt to attract young investors, and reclaim assets of Merrill clients who keep self-directed brokerage accounts at rivals such as Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.
Although retention bonuses and deferred-payment recruiting packages have locked many top-producing brokers in place at wirehouses, a substantial number are still looking to break free.
The Labor Department today issued much anticipated fee disclosure rules for providers of services to employee pension benefit plans.
After spending the July 4 recess studying the 2,300-page overhaul measure, Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, announced yesterday that they will support the bill.
