Alberto Sisso is moving to Raymond James' employee unit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The plan is aimed at small to midsize businesses that have less than $25 million in retirement plan assets
The network is prodding the SEC to force brokers to register as advisers if they give advice, provide financial planning or hold themselves out as advisers.
The broker, Shaiful Chowdhury, was arrested for possession of 10 pounds of marijuana a month after he joined Merrill Lynch in New York City.
The more individually tailored a communication to a customer is, the more likely it is a recommendation, SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee said during the NASAA fall meeting.
Carrie Turcotte and Crystal Walker run NorthShore Financial Strategies in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Most employers have tuition-reimbursement budgets, though they hardly spend them. Those budgets instead could go to student loans.
While industry groups argue the programs will take business away from advisers, there are still ways to get involved in the retirement planning process.
A recent report by Natixis speaks to areas that can be addressed to improve U.S. retirement security, and there’s plenty of evidence about what needs to be done.
Known as the Inter Alia Group, four reps and four associates make switch in Portland, Oregon.
The cybersecurity solution, which aims to protect advisers and their end clients' business email, comes from tech firm Armorblox.
The agency says the firm favored ‘flippers’ over institutional and retail clients when it allocated newly issued municipal bonds.
AdvicePay, the payment tool co-founded by Michael Kitces, is trying to make it easier for large advisory firms to adopt differing fee models — and accept payment in a compliant manner.
The broker-dealer self-regulator launched the exam sweep a couple of weeks after the Securities and Exchange Commission released a request for comment about the “digital engagement practices” used by investment advisers and broker-dealers.
A J.D. Power study finds that only 43% of users say it’s easy to locate needed information on retirement plan sites.
The salesman, Anthony DeJohn, improperly used BMO's funds by charging to his corporate card and obtaining reimbursement for $2,270 in daily commuting expenses, according to Finra.
The court granted a motion to dismiss the claims against the company, although the plaintiffs have 30 days to amend their complaint to address its shortcomings.
The acceleration in the projected depletion of the trust fund is bad, but given that this was the first report to include the effects of the pandemic-induced recession, the news could have been worse.
The year-over-year increase in assets in health savings accounts is 26%, while the number of accounts now totals 31 million, up 6%.
Altus Consulting Group, based in Texas and Wisconsin, becomes an office of supervisory jurisdiction.
