The mutual fund trade group asks the state to repeal a new sales tax on investment advice services.
The worse-than-expected third-quarter losses raise questions as to the fate of chief executive Stanley O’Neal.
Legislation mandating complete transparency in 401(k) fees is set to be introduced in the Senate this week.
The Labor Department has turned down stable-value funds as a default investment in 401(k) retirement plans.
National Planning Holdings Inc. has begun a program to hire and manage an in-house licensed and trained assistant.
Two new tax efficiency tools are available to help advisers in portfolio management, specifically with the complex decision making as-sociated with their clients' stock holdings.
Many financial planners and investment advisers have helped small companies establish 401(k) retirement plans for their employees.
There just aren't enough planners to go around, according to leaders of the financial planning profession. Speaking this month in New York, Nicholas Nicolette, president of the Denver-based Financial Planning Association, said some firms will need to double or triple in size in the near future.
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The Phoenix Cos. Inc. has formed an alliance with Jefferson National Life Insurance Co. in which Phoenix will use the Jefferson technology platform to offer no-load variable annuities to fee-based advisers at wirehouses and regional broker-dealers.
With the third-quarter-earnings season in full swing, financial advisers and analysts are finding similarities between this technology boom and the previous one — and they can't help but wonder if another bust is on the horizon.
As we spoke, I could tell by the glint in his eye and his body language that Michael L. Weiss, chief executive of Frontier Financial Advisors LLC, is a helluva salesman. The fact that he was several miles away was just a technicality.
Merrill Lynch has launched an independent broker-neutral platform for its prime brokerage clients in the hedge fund industry.
Cory Little will head the private banking and investment unit in Boston's global wealth management group.
Merrill Lynch is stoutly denying that its finance chief, Jeffrey Edwards, will get the boot.
A subsidiary of NYSE Euronext announced that connectivity to the BATS market center is available via the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure.
One of the nation's top-producing independent brokers is under investigation by Michigan securities regulators.
Financial advisers who are frustrated over perceived shortcomings in mutual-fund- rating systems soon will have a new prism through which to view funds.
The financial advisers with the fastest-growing businesses aren't succeeding by accident.
