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Checks on sponsor companies and protection for investors and advisers is welcome, but statement reporting adds more confusion than clarity
Course will be offered to financial and nonfinancial majors to offer them a taste of the advice profession.
Some brokers say the math in moving to a fee-based model just doesn't add up for clients.
Top 35 years of earnings, not final years, determine monthly amount.
Urges members of Congress to support charging user fees to advisers for exams
Action contrasts with House panel vote last week, which gave agency $300 million less
Everything they do is magic, but they have to earn their own living, adviser says.
The SEC must find a way to increase adviser examinations, otherwise American investors face a grave threat.
Sporting dark sunglasses at Morningstar's investor conference, Bill Gross defended the performance of Pimco as its flagship product continues to suffer withering withdrawals.
Charitable donations seen as a win for clients and advisers.
Pimco's storied but embattled bond king seeks to rebuild Pimco's flagship fund, as well as his reputation. <i>Plus: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20140615/MUTUAL">Our full mutual funds special report.</i></a>
After severe weather crimped its recruiting efforts over the winter, LPL Financial says it's seeing a return to normal levels of adviser movement but that the once-hot nontraded REIT market is cooling off.
At <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/video?playerType=Events&eventID=Pershing2014&playlistID=3603510948001">Pershing's Insite 2014</a>, BNY exec Brian Shea says bigger Wall Street players continue to face economic and regulatory challenges, opening the door for smaller firms.
Advisers can use their role to facilitate building generational bonds
The measure has bipartisan support going forward, but hurdles remain.
Proponents of the strategy tout its effectiveness in any rate environment.
Bond yields are beginning to move back toward familiar territory, which provides a reminder that bonds were never really designed to provide high returns. They were and are designed to provide security. In other words, the party is over.
Small data, or the information you can access and interpret from resources within your own firm, can pay off big.
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