Salesforce.com Inc is going after the independent adviser market with Salesforce for Wealth Management, a customized, adviser-focused version of its popular customer relationship management application.
Despite criticism by some in the financial services industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposals for reforming the credit rating agencies deserve a grade of B+.
A former UBS AG banker testified against the firm yesterday, claiming it participated in schemes to help hide $20 billion in assets and avoid income tax laws.
Some 21% of participants are now contributing at a lower rate and 4% have stopped altogether, according to Putnam.
Two of the brokerage industry's most prominent wealth managers have dumped their wirehouse broker-dealers, instead opting to become independent registered investment advisers, with more well-known advisers perhaps soon to take the same path.
Despite continued efforts to curtail litigation when brokers change firms, departing reps are still being sued, and some say that recent developments suggest the harassment won't stop anytime soon.
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No single vendor dominates the market for financial planning software and advisers are divided fairly evenly on whether they prefer self-hosted applications or applications hosted on the web.
Leveraging technology to drive growth, and handling information overload and system integration, were among the concerns advisers discussed at an InvestmentNews technology round table.
More and more financial advisers are likely to be confronted with client demands for the divestiture from their portfolios of the stocks of companies that fail some moral screen.
“We’re not going to move [the bill],” said Rep. George Miller, D.-Calif. “We don’t see the president signing it.”
NYSE Euronext filed proposed rules meant to allow the institution to become more competitive and efficient.
SunGard Data Systems today released version 3.0 of its WealthStation wealth management platform.
The exchange is attempting to provide its customers with complex event processing capabilities.
Financial advisers face an array of challenges in the retirement market in the next decade.
Your Silver Bullet is creating a single standard on which members can base future software projects.
