M&A activity in the investment advice business is most definitely hotting up. In the lastest example, large RIA firm Colony Group has been acquired by Focus Financial. In case you're counting, that's the fourth deal this year for Focus.
A same-sex marriage law that took effect July 24 in New York doesn't mean those couples can count on the same tax treatment that heterosexual unions receive, a discrepancy that some lawmakers and companies are seeking to mitigate.
The legalization of same-sex marriage last month in New York already is sending gay and lesbian couples to their financial planners for advice.
Moving from Wells Fargo's Financial Services Group to indie B-D
At regulator's conference, Herstein criticizes move to take oversight away from states; 'sovereign obligation'
Wells Fargo B-D aims to reward reps who bring in new business; no longer 'recruit or die'
Suit charges regulators with conspiring to put his firm, North American Clearing, out of business
Lousy investment performance apparently drove four clients of a financial adviser in Speyer, Germany, to kidnap the adviser and torture him for four days last week, according to published reports.
