The increase in class work on how to prepare and present financial plans is intended to bridge theory and practice
While practice management experts said advisers must maintain a fine line between finances and personal issues, it's not uncommon for advisers to forge close friendships with their clients.
Sales of both variable annuities and fixed annuities fell in 2009, according to the latest data from LIMRA.
Asset manager Eaton Vance Corp. said Wednesday its profit for its fiscal third quarter fell 37 percent as it recorded lower fund inflows than a year ago.
Goldman Sach's value-at-risk in 2009 was more than twice what it was in 2008. The result? A $13B profit for the year — mostly from trading and investing.
Ken Kaltman, chief operating officer at National Compliance Services, Inc. in Delray Beach, Fla., will soon have a lasting memento of his $15,000 donation to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. He'll be the proud owner of the wingback chairs that both former presidents actually sat in for their “debate” at the TD Ameritrade conference earlier this month.
Trouble in paradise? Apparently, as Maui Co. sues Merrill Lynch to get back its investments in auction rate securities.
The New York Attorney General's office said Thursday it is filing civil charges against Bank of America and its former CEO Ken Lewis, saying the bank misled investors about Merrill Lynch when it acquired the Wall Street bank in late 2008.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has retreated even further from the life settlements arena, shutting down Longmore Capital, its life settlements provider.
Volume from life settlements transactions is expected to reach $13 billion in face amount annually over the next three years, according to research from Aite Group.
For the first time they can recall, several independent broker-dealers have been solicited by life settlement companies to sell private placements of securities based on life insurance policies.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Thursday it earned $4.79 billion in the fourth quarter as the bank's trading business again outdistanced the rest of the financial industry.
That's good news for consumer-oriented companies, which are likely to benefit from more incremental spending
Private-equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC last week said that it has completed its acquisition of three ING Groep NV broker-dealers.
Tighter regulation of sales, more mergers and continued capital building are three developments insurance carriers are likely to experience in 2010.
Sales of fixed annuities fell during the third quarter to $21.9 billion, a 21% decline from a year earlier, according to data from Beacon Research Publications Inc.
