A sports car worth nearly $2 million, an 87-foot yacht and a guitar collection worth as much as $20,000 were among the assets seized from a South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme, according to a court filing Monday.
Advisers have the opportunity, until Nov. 20, to make their voices heard on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s broad proposal to change how it regulates financial advisory firms' communications with the public — a proposal that could address advisers' use of social media.
Two California investment advisory firms were charged with improper short selling today by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
With retirement income management becoming the primary objective of many investors, it's time for new investment benchmarks which reflect that. For decades, investors have been using the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average as defaults for investment performance. But constructing portfolios that track those benchmarks is of little value for investors who must live off the returns on their portfolios.
George Robison, the director of licensing for the Utah Division of Securities, is discussing taking legal action against his employer for allegedly retaliating against him because he participated in an audit of the division, according to people familiar with the situation.
Putnam Investments has joined the slew of fund companies launching online tools to help financial advisers talk to their clients about whether or not they should convert to a Roth Individual Retirement Account.
With the Senate set to reconvene this week, the insurance industry is stepping up its efforts to encourage members of the Banking Committee to support a comprehensive study into whether brokers should be forced to adhere to a fiduciary standard.
A California couple has filed suit against The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co., an American International Group Inc. subsidiary, claiming that the company's sales agents misled investors about the tax advantages of using variable annuities in qualified retirement plans.
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No doubt about it, social networking is one hot topic right now. Financial advisers, though, have been relatively slow to embrace sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
WealthTouch Inc., which offers a consolidated investment-reporting platform on the web for the wealth management industry, today announced that it has raised $11 million in private money to allow it to expand in Europe.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday it earned $3.28 billion in the last three months of 2009, extending a winning streak for big U.S. banks.
As the clock wound down on the Federal estate tax late last year, some financial advisers and attorneys saw an opportunity for their high-net-worth clients in this extremely muddled situation.
Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag.
The Financial Planning Association is expected today to unveil a major research study on customer relationship management. ActiFi Inc., a financial services technology consulting firm, partnered with FPA in completing the 85 page comparative analysis of CRM packages available to the advisory market.
Women who have recently lost a spouse may confront many changes in their daily lives and need financial support and advice.
BrightScope Inc., a provider of 401(k) plan ratings, last week introduced an online tool that provides investors and financial advisers with personalized data about how much they are paying in fees in retirement plans.
The upset election last week in Massachusetts of Scott Brown to the Senate will have a more modest impact on financial services regulatory-reform legislation than on health care reform.
In a rarity, an arbitrator last month cited elder abuse in tripling the damages a discount securities firm must pay a 95-year-old client.
