One bad broker making big bets or selling lousy or misunderstood products can damage or even ruin a firm. Are firms doing enough to keep those brokers and high-risk behaviors in check?
The problem is largely a result of the multivendor systems common in teachers’ supplemental retirement plans. Brokers descend on unsophisticated teachers at work and sometimes at home, mostly offering high-priced annuities.
Recently, Nebraska, Idaho and North Dakota passed rules matching NAIC’s standard, joining other states on the roster: Arkansas, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Michigan and Rhode Island.
The trade group says its members could save as much as 50% over the cost of health coverage on the open market.
Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines — both headquartered in Atlanta — have come out against the bill, as have many other corporations. That has drawn backlash from Republican lawmakers, including U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Former chief compliance officer Michael Cohn was also fined $50,000. A former Securities and Exchange Commission examiner, he was charged in October 2019 with obstruction of justice relating to an SEC investigation of GPB.
The giant asset manager also intends to add technology workers at operations centers.
Jeter, whose teams won five World Series, retired from baseball after the 2014 season and is currently the CEO of the Miami Marlins.
Wagner Wealth Management, based in Greenville, South Carolina, has seven reps.
Charles Stephen, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based firm with four advisers, will affiliate through super-OSJ AmeriFlex.
A lot has changed over the past 12 months, and it's likely that what your clients want or prefer may have changed as well.
The bank's sale of $5 billion of shares owned by Archegos on March 25, the day before the deluge of block trades by other firms, helped Morgan Stanley emerge largely unscathed from the fund's flameout.
The level of knowledge is improving but the public still needs guidance on decisions about claiming benefits.
Advisers thinking of making a move should evaluate firms on what they're doing and what they've done, not on how big or small they are.
People who self-directed their investments shifted to more conservative allocations, with an average decrease in equities by 17 percentage points during the first quarter of 2020.
The invested money reached $23.8 billion at the end of 2020, up more than 51% from the $15.7 billion seen at the end of 2019, according to a report Monday from HSA research and consulting firm Devenir.
Veteran advisers Kellie Rixse and business partner Jeff Todd make move in Anchorage, Alaska.
The company says it will convert its $39 billion Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund as soon as U.S. regulators allow.
The asset manager will undergo a third-party audit of its operations following a request from a shareholder.
Sludge is like an anti-nudge: Rather than removing friction to make a choice simpler, sludge adds friction or complexity to the customer journey for the purpose of entrapping or upselling consumers.
