Broker Collin Rigler and associate Eric Montijo based in Los Angeles.
Retirement market is increasingly consolidating, among advisory firms and record keepers.
Five deals this month already beats last year's quarterly consolidation pace.
Advisors Southeastern Alliance was affiliated with INVEST Financial.
Financial advisers who've lost loved ones to drugs are responding as forces of positive change.
Focus Financial partner firm has done seven deals since 2011.
Health savings accounts are an investment planning opportunity, given most of their $45 billion sits in cash.
Clients can claim benefits even if earnings exceed annual limit.
In 2018 exam priorities, regulator says not to sell clients high-fee products and then move them into advisory accounts.
The judge said the adviser erred in recommending a lump-sum distribution, but barred plaintiffs from recovery because they were also negligent.
Larry Boggs exercised discretion in five accounts without written authorization.
Broker David Lloyd Barber and Madison Avenue Securities to pay all fees, costs.
Policy tailwinds and economic drivers appear poised to give a shot to the earnings of smaller, mid-cap brokers and electronic trading firms, Nomura's Steven Chubak says.
Most say it will be tame; but predicting it is 'murderously hard.'
Any positive effects are unlikely to last, and will contribute to greater budget deficits over the next 10 years.
It looks like the SEC will not require financial advisers to avoid or mitigate material conflicts, merely disclose them.
Better than expected year-end manufacturing and private payrolls data in U.S. fuel bets that growth and tax breaks will buttress earnings.
Bruce Meyers also fined $75,000 for supervision failures and barred from serving as a principal or supervisor.
Blame smaller-than-expected benefits on higher Medicare premiums.
Advisers agree that not all apocalypses are created equal.
