The purchase of Bloomfield Hills Financial brings SageView 50 employees and six locations.
Investing apps allow investors to trade securities and share those strategies with like-minded traders. Regulators may need to consider whether they're also providing investment advice.
The broker-dealer regulator's move comes as the SEC launches a study of the risks associated with complex exchange-traded products that could lead to rulemaking.
The case has big implications for similar state programs that require small businesses with as few as five employees to provide retirement plans, unless they register for the state-sponsored option.
The bank is strengthening its investment advice offerings by adding both a robo-adviser and a hybrid adviser.
The report says the volatile trading in meme stocks early last year warrants a close look at factors that led brokers to restrict customer trading, as well as at gamification, short-selling and payment for order flow.
Smaller state advisers want to be able to post client endorsements and quote them in ads when bigger SEC-registered firms get the green light.
The National Institute on Retirement Security found the middle class can longer afford retirement, according to a new report.
Fidelity is increasing its limit for student loan contributions for its employees, and MassMutual is letting people apply vacation time to payments.
The former broker, Dalas Gundersen, sued Edward Jones in 2015, seeking damages, after three fake gay-sex ads were posted on Craigslist earlier that year listing his business phone number.
While the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF is the first of its kind, there are a host of other versions coming soon. The futures-based strategy could make the tech stock volatility of the 1990s look tame by comparison, according to experts.
This month’s #AdviserTech roundup includes Franklin Templeton’s purchase of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management and its Canvas direct index platform; Morningstar’s acquisition of Moorgate Benchmarks; Betterment for Advisors’ shift from TAMP to RIA custodian competitor; and the SEC’s inquiry into when fintech-driven nudges become bona fide investment advice.
TIAA settled claims in July from the SEC and New York State. Deloitte was recently sued over its plan, and Aon prevailed in a lawsuit.
Fintech experts say the next disruption could come from out of the blue, and that advisers should avoid embracing tech for tech's sake.
Unlike Bitcoin ETF applications that the regulator has previously blocked, the proposals by ProShares and Invesco are based on futures contracts, and the SEC isn't likely to block them from starting to trade next week.
Claims that crypto is 'untraceable' and the 'perfect tax haven' have been exploded. Those who bought into this mythology have to decide what to do.
The new adviser development program is up and running with 750 advisers. Some of the new recruits could be already licensed to sell securities, but don't have a background in financial advice, according to the company.
Democratic bills in Congress would codify the Biden administration's proposal, but Republican support is lacking.
Participation in 403(b) plans went up during the pandemic, to over 77% of eligible employees in 2020, compared with less than 77% in 2019 and 72% in 2018, according to PSCA.
The IBD is offering a multiple-employer aggregate program that affiliates can use with small businesses and start-up plans.
