NASD has fined Wachovia $2 million for failing to adequately supervise its fee-based brokerage business.
Lehman Brothers plans to raise $500 million for a fund that invests in private equity companies, according to published reports.
Morgan Stanley scored record levels of income and net revenues during the second quarter.
Compensating brokers for servicing mutual fund shareholders was anticipated by the SEC when it first adopted12(b)-1 fees in 1980.
Federal court trials have started for Gregory L. Reyes, former chief executive of Brocade Communications.
Bear Stearns’ investment bank may lend $1.5 billion to save one of the company's struggling hedge funds, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Public-service spots starring “Savingsman” and his canine companion "401k-9" won three Emmy awards.
WASHINGTON — Registered investment advisers are likely to outspend other financial intermediaries for compliance software, according to a recent report by Celent LLC, a Boston-based research and consulting firm.
WASHINGTON — U.S. investors could face reduced protections if the Securities and Exchange Commission loosens restrictions to allow foreign brokerage firms to offer securities in the United States, according to some speakers last week at a daylong SEC public meeting on cross-border regulation.
IRVINE, Calif. — A debate is brewing over the establishment of retail-sales-practice guidelines for structured products.
In a bid to stand out among their peers and to be more competitive in the marketplace, an increasing number of small to midsize independent-contractor broker-dealers are offering sophisticated compensation plans, including stock ownership, to their affiliated registered representatives.
Postnuptial agreements are gaining popularity as an estate-planning tool, and some hedge funds and private-equity firms have asked their top executives to sign them to protect their companies in case of a messy divorce, according to attorneys and financial advisers.
J. Thomas Bradley Jr., president of TD Ameritrade Institutional, is feeling the heat from financial advisers as he tries to balance their concerns and the demands of his parent firm, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., to continue to increase assets.
Aiming to forestall defections and address merger-related anxieties, Wachovia Securities LLC and A.G. Edwards Inc. announced broker retention packages Friday.
In an effort to charge up its top registered representatives and financial advisers, Raymond James Financial Services Inc. is giving bonuses to its biggest-producing brokers.
Brokers at A.G. Edwards Inc. won’t have to worry about losing their wealthy clients, according to Stan Kelly, president of Wachovia Wealth Management.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. said that it has raised $1.5 billion for its new Lehman Crossroads Fund XVIII fund-of-funds.
Brokers at A.G. Edwards and Wachovia Securities got details of their retention packages today.
