Insurance industry calls on DOL to allow propriety sales, revenue-sharing in fiduciary rule; predicts business will “contract dramatically” if agency doesn't give it an exemption to higher advice standard
Recent Supreme Court decision preventing bankruptcy protection for these assets calls for careful planning strategies.
From Bill Winterberg: Which features of Apple's latest operating system advisers need to know. Plus his highlights from Apple's 2014 World Wide Developers Conference.
Why did Sterne Agee <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140527/FREE/140529934">fire CEO James Holbrook Jr.?</a> Many want to know, especially since the firm and its former CEO were recently accused of all manner of professional hanky-panky.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin: Why there's no excitement for this stock rally. </i>Plus: Fee-only RIAs in the catbird seat but they can't relax; the active ETF world heating up; what QE has wrought; on Phil Mickelson and insider trading; and Apple's big day.
Five tips can help you adopt a system that saves time through automated workflow efficiencies
Low-cost index funds capturing 25% of new assets but drive just 5% of revenue.
New unit will influence product selections for 15,000 advisers managing $1.6 trillion in assets.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Carl Icahn warns that stocks are on risky ground. Plus: Interest rates and volatility are raising red flags, one man's take on the Fed-fueled bubble, the SEC is watching for political-donation conflicts, gold gets no respect, and institutional money is chasing solar energy stocks.
SignalPoint Asset Management failed to disclose conflicts of interest to clients, the SEC alleges.
In a recent survey, more 50% of advisers said they are deterred from social media either by regulators or their own firms.
For most, training is more of a priority than buying new tech products.
Stephen Davis joins the firm after spending his entire 21-year career at Merrill.
Free from big mortgages, they say downsizing has won them economic freedom.
Sampling serves as an excellent snapshot of industry technology trends.
The wirehouse is one of the first to break away from exclusively canned content on Twitter.
Social Security planning has taken a giant step into the workplace, and retirement planning may never be the same. Mary Beth Franklin calls the addition of claiming strategies to retirement income tools a possible game changer.
Nicholas Schorsch's network of independent broker-dealers is closing in on nearly 9,000 reps.
But there are broader implications of not allowing for down time.
Thirty percent of those surveyed “somewhat likely” to dump 401(k)s, but critics call study flawed.
