CEO said he's leaving as a result of strategic differences with the parent company
Stocks are slightly lower in early trading as concerns about foreign debt problems offset a weaker dollar.
World stock markets fell Wednesday amid ongoing worries about sovereign credit risks and ahead of a key budgetary policy statement from the British government.
Dubai's main stock exchange plunged for a third straight day Wednesday as investors dumped holdings.
Stock futures are indicating a higher open on Wall Street Wednesday, bouncing back from the previous day's losses as the dollar resumes its decline.
California is considering charging broker-dealer and investment advisory representatives $25 per year to cover the cost of regulating more investment advisory firms, the state's corporations commissioner, Preston DuFauchard, told InvestmentNews today.
The broker attrition at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is slowing down, according to Charles Johnston, its president and chief operating officer.
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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is entering into the recruiting wars with its guns blazing and is creating a potential pay package for new advisers that will match that of its rival Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.'s Global Wealth Management unit.
In another acknowledgment of the rapid rise of independent investment advisers, Putnam Investments is creating a distribution channel dedicated solely to selling its products to them.
“The opportunities today, from the bottom up, are certainly the best I've seen in my lifetime,” Martin J. Whitman, the founder of New York-based Third Avenue Management LLC, told advisers today.
Regulations proposed last week by the Internal Revenue Service would leave brokerage firms little time to begin reporting cost basis information to customers.
European and U.S. stock markets fell sharply Tuesday after worse than expected German industrial production data and a warning from a leading credit ratings agency that the U.S. government needs to get its public finances in shape soon.
Stock futures are drifting lower as investors pile on more safe-haven assets like the dollar and Treasurys.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2010 leaders today, with Jane Cline, West Virginia's insurance commissioner, assuming the presidency.
Having expertise with retirement income products and issues is paying off for many advisers, according to a study published today by the Financial Planning Association.
The game of musical chairs at Citgroup and Bank of America goes on. Citi announced today that its private banking operation has hired Steve Bodurtha as head of investments for North America. Mr. Bodurtha will oversee the investments platform for Citi Private Bank across the U.S. and Canada.
Bank of America's outgoing CEO Ken Lewis says the economy may be improving but the recovery in the financial industry remains slow.
