Deal adds six equities strategies, pushes firm over $500M in assets.
For five years, the Fed has focused on home-grown challenges, including financial turmoil and the recession and surge in unemployment that resulted. The biggest threat to U.S. expansion under its next chairman may lie outside its borders as China and fellow emerging markets show signs of weakening.
Former Miami Fed chairman talks tapering, Yellen and the market
A roundup on what top experts had to say about this week's market moves
California-based advisory conglomerate has its eye on national expansion
Two Republican lawmakers say the SEC's investor-protection measures for private placement ads limit free speech. The response from one state securities cop? "Absurd!"
The world's biggest investors are finding U.S. government bonds becoming safer, not more risky, as the deadline to avoid the first American default approaches
Market experts say investors shouldn't pull their assets out of the market despite the looming debt ceiling debate. But they should be ready for plenty of volatility.
Moves by Wells, Merrill, LPL sign of times?
Two deals in two days and Nicholas Schorsch isn't done yet. Today's deal for Investors Capital marks the second independent broker-dealer he's purchased this year. What's next on his bucket list?
Strategies to mitigate new surtax could kick Medicare prices higher
A federal judge has ruled that Merrill Lynch can't force a group of brokers suing the firm over overtime into arbitration. The case has big implications for the Finra-Schwab class action case.
New York state has accused the brokerage giant of falsely describing auction-rate securities as liquid investments without disclosing the risks
Move would require brokers to meet the same standard that RIAs meet — putting best interests of clients first.
<i>IN</i> data indicate the firm lost a net 11 adviser teams, $8.4B in client assets, in the third quarter.
Even though the partial shutdown of the government is set to give way to a prolonged — and probably nasty — debt-ceiling debate, now is not the time to bail from the markets.
