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RIAS RIA NEWS APR 07, 2011
Ameriprise sets aside $40M for private placement claims

Amount equals about 10% of total client losses on Reg D notes later deemed fraudulent by the SEC

By Bruce Kelly
Fidelity snags LPL exec to run family office program
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 06, 2011
Fidelity snags LPL exec to run family office program

Norton to run UHNW program for RIAs

By John Goff
Thiel selection may calm Merrill's thundering herd
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 06, 2011
Thiel selection may calm Merrill's thundering herd

Choice of veteran from within firm -- rather than from parent BofA -- could mollify some brokers; 'safe pick' .

By Andrew Osterland
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 06, 2011
One more PE firm gets into broker-dealer biz

Drexel renunion as Leon Black's Apollo's buys into Morgan Joseph TriArtisan; fees the key

By John Goff
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 06, 2011
Surprise! Tax reform still on hold

And Washington watchers say meaningful progress may not happen until the next election

By Mark Schoeff Jr
INVESTING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 06, 2011
Top tax rate would go sky-high under new proposal

U.S. millionaires would face an annual income tax increase of at least 10% under a deficit reduction measure proposed by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, R-Ill

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 06, 2011
Job cuts, capital ratios jam up State Street

Profits plunge even as assets under custody hit all-time high

By John Goff
INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS APR 05, 2011
American Century nabs ex-Fidelity big as new sales chief

Former Fidelity distribution head Peter Cieszko will join American Century in a new position heading up intermediary and institutional sales in North America

By Jessica Toonkel
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 05, 2011
Public pension crisis has some bracing for worst

Legislative ambiguity about public pension funds, as well as their underfunded status, has financial advisers who work with public employees scrambling to plug holes in their retirement plans

By Darla Mercado
What clients hear when advisers talk: Blah blah blah
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 05, 2011
What clients hear when advisers talk: Blah blah blah

Investors say they want clearer explanations about strategies, losses; close to half do their own planning, survey shows

By Lavonne Kuykendall
ADVISOR NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 05, 2011
Branch managers, time to stop living in the past: Sarch

By Danny Sarch
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 05, 2011
Higher earnings are creating a dividend bonanza

Record earnings fueled by the highest profit margins since 1993 are giving executives more leeway than ever to boost dividends as the bull market enters its third year

By Bloomberg
BlackRock to take wraps off wraps for retail advisers
INVESTING ETFS APR 05, 2011
BlackRock to take wraps off wraps for retail advisers

Asset manager set to launch customized programs for broker-dealers

By Bloomberg
J.P. Morgan picks up a Pimco big – again
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 04, 2011
J.P. Morgan picks up a Pimco big – again

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has tapped its <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110404/FREE/110409984 second Pimco exec</a> this month to help expand distribution.

By Jessica Toonkel
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 04, 2011
Surprises in state income taxes

State taxes don't always follow the same rules used in calculating federal income taxes

By Robert N. Gordon
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 04, 2011
CFP Board taps Merrill Lynch exec to run biz development

Aiming to extend its outreach to large financial services firms, the CFP Board has hired Joseph V. Maugeri as its director of business development.

By Darla Mercado
Sallie Krawcheck: Bring on the indies
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 04, 2011
Sallie Krawcheck: Bring on the indies

The BofA-Merrill boss sounds set to take on recruiters, the threat of the rising RIA model, and anyone else who steps in her path

By Mark Bruno
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 04, 2011
BofA slaps 'garden leave' restrictions on advisers

Has Bank of America Corp. upped the ante in the battle between the wirehouses and the independent advisory firms gunning for their top producers?

By Andrew Osterland
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 04, 2011
Vanguard ousts AllianceBernstein as subadviser of U.S. Growth

Firm hires Delaware Investment and Wellington Management to manage one-third of $3.7B fund, joining William Blair

By Jessica Toonkel
You having a laugh, mate? U.K. proposes $225 a week flat-rate state pension
RIAS RIA NEWS APR 03, 2011
You having a laugh, mate? U.K. proposes $225 a week flat-rate state pension

The U.K. government proposed replacing its current means-tested state pension with a flat-rate payment of about 140 pounds ($225) a week, with the goal of increasing incentives for people to save for their old age.

By Doug Cubberley