The agency charged two Cetera broker-dealers with breaching fiduciary duty and defrauding retail advisory clients in connection with the sales of mutual funds.
The Center for Board Certified Fiduciaries, a public benefit corporation, is seeking to affiliate with one or more universities to offer the fiduciary curriculum. The board also will certify fiduciary professionals in one of 10 areas of specialization.
A drop in investment fees led to the reduction in total plan costs.
The platform it's buying, HiddenLevers, allows advisers to perform portfolio- or security-level stress tests to measure sensitivity to macro-level risks.
When a family member dies, the Social Security office will often ask for the last check back.
Financial advisers are being bombarded with questions about whether clients need to enroll in Medicare.
Michelle Dunstan runs an unusual fund within AllianceBernstein’s ESG investment platform. She explains how it complements the asset manager’s other funds.
The companies are the latest that work with thousands of financial advisers to make plans for employees or work with local officials to ease the introduction of vaccines.
Vedder Group, a four-person team in Tallahassee, Florida, is using the services of Integrated Partners, with Fidelity as its custodian.
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Some firms offered help with the cost of technology or other tools employees needed to make it easier to work from home, while others offered fitness distractions by moving weekly employee yoga classes online.
Advisers don’t have to join the bulls, but they better join the discussion.
The marketplace for RIA M&A networks is currently overrun with players — from brand-new entrants from outside the U.S. to well-established RIAs. Over the past 15 years, the RIA aggregator market has taken off.
The father-and-son team at Dawson Wealth Management Group joins the wirehouse in San Diego.
A three-adviser, three-associate team is joining the firm in San Antonio.
Lawsuits increasingly draw in other plan service providers, ranging from record keepers to product solutions providers, plan advisers and others.
New York state says the insurer failed to adequately inform consumers about the differences between products.
Plaintiffs in the separate cases allege the sponsors allowed the plans to have excessive investment-management and record-keeping fees.
As broad market indexes continue to decline, giving back most of the gains they've made so far this year, advisers say clients are growing fearful of a repeat of March 2020.
The bank continues to cut costs and simplify its broad wealth management business. Just last month, Wells Fargo said it was selling its asset management business, with $600 billion in assets, to two private equity managers.
