Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC this month began imposing quarterly fees of $35 on households with total accounts under $25,000, the latest development in big brokerage firms' long-simmering campaigns to wean financial advisers from small accounts.
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An unexpected visit by an ING Financial auditor uncovered a potential scam at Breard & Associates Wealth Management. Now, infomercial star Rhonda Breard faces fraud charges.
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In an executive switch that creates an opening in its wrap account business, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has named a new chief operating officer and a new private-wealth-management head.
Advisers are alarmed that a new online reporting system that discloses their disciplinary records includes customer complaints that have not been substantiated.
The guru of federal retirement policy has high hopes for one of his yet-to-be-approved retirement creations: the automatic IRA.
What to do while waiting for the participant advice rule to be finalized.
The Vanguard Group Inc. is alleged to have violated federal law when it refused to hire an black applicant because of her race, according to a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Some top retirement gurus are in the process of developing proposals that could make annuity products a crucial part of millions of Americans' retirement plans.
Economists heralded FedEx Corp.'s decision to restore its matching contribution to employees' 401(k) plans as a sign that the recession is ending, but surveys show that less than half of the firms that reduced or suspended plan matches in recent years have restored them.
As Congress heads toward its summer recess, it looks unlikely that legislators will make progress any time soon on the estate tax. That leaves financial planners and their clients in the lurch.
Morningstar QuoteSpeed, an online application which has been available in beta form since last October, has now officially become part of the company's lineup of products for advisers.
The controversial CEO is set to become the insurer's longest-serving chief executive officer since the company's near-collapse in 2008
The AIG broker-dealer network, now called Advisor Group, has managed to invest in and enhance its technology, despite the turmoil surrounding its parent company, American International Group Inc.
With dramatic changes re-shaping the brokerage industry in recent years, Danny Sarch wants to know: How will the wirehouses continue to make money?
If LPL decides to launch anytime soon — as of yet, no date has been set — it will be doing so smack dab in the middle of an incredibly difficult market for IPOs in general and financial services stocks in particular.
A lawyer in Denver has filed a suit against the Securities and Exchange Commission, demanding the names of the SEC employees who were recently disciplined for viewing pornography on government computers.
Capitalism, the free market no longer at work; making sense of the 'new normal' nearly impossible
