While industry experts and broker-dealers are working to simplify variable annuity processing and cut down on paperwork electronically, software vendors are trying to help advisers easily compare products to comply with suitability requirements.
Despite some quibbles, Act For Financial Professionals is a customer relationship management system that is making many advisers' short lists.
While target marketing usually means targeting a specific audience, sometimes a product target also can bring success.
Today’s Supreme Court decision will impact 50 million workers with $2.7 trillion invested in 401(k) plans.
Disciplinary histories would be included in plain English brochures.
Christopher Poch will run the private trust group at the firm.
Signature Resources Capital Management has teamed up with Fundquest Inc. to launch a wealth management platform.
Brent Nelson's nightmare experience with state securities regulators began last May when, out of the blue, he received a letter from Ohio's Division of Securities telling him his license had been suspended.
The French really are different. Consider how the United States would have dealt with Jérôme Kerviel, the 31-year-old trader at Société Générale who managed to lose more than $7 billion through unauthorized trades in stock index futures.
Registered investment advisers seem to be winning the race to capture the retiring-baby-boomer market, according to Charles "Chip" Roame, managing principal of Tiburon (Calif.) Strategic Advisors LLC, who spoke at the TD Ameritrade Partnership 2008 Conference in Orlando, Fla. this month.
The Investment Management Consultants Association has been attracting more independent planners and advisers.
LPL Financial will increase its spending on monitoring tools and in other areas to make sure it does not experience a repeat of last year's technology glitches, according to its new chief information officer.
Raymond James has won a $1.75 million arbitration claim against Cantor Fitzgerald.
Officials have testified that the time is right for a federal insurance regulator.
Many advisory firms are already invested in and rely on the comprehensive and complex Worldox application for their document management needs. Now another company — Trumpet Inc. — has come out with an add-on program for Worldox that is meant to help simplify the scanning and accuracy of filing documents.
Defined contribution record-kept assets at Fidelity Investments grew 8% last year.
Insurer settles with California over allegedly inappropriate fixed annuity sales.
Cynthia King will be head of products for the the company’s Employer Markets Defined Contribution and Executive Benefits Business segment.
Ameriprise Financial Inc. is calling 10,000 of its financial advisers to its headquarters for technology training on a grand scale.
