A prominent wirehouse rep and his Hawaii-based team — <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/FREE/909299980&ht=choy>who rather suddenly left</a> Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in September — have formed a new advisory firm.
Four senior citizens in Florida who were scammed into purchasing “inappropriate” equity indexed deferred annuities have had a combined $1.2 million returned to them by the state's chief financial officer, Alex Sink, according a statement from Florida's Department of Financial Services.
Back in May, we introduced you to <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090501/REG/905019982&ht=SimpliFi"" target="”_blank”" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sophie</a>, SimpliFi's free virtual financial planner. Well, Sophie's grown up since then. As of today, she's gotten a lot more sophisticated, at least for the customers of financial institutions such as credit unions and banks that provide SimpliFi LLC's Planning Service Plus to their customers.
The majority of investors who work with advisers are not aware that income limits associated with the conversion of a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA will be lifted in January, according to a survey conducted by Fidelity Investments.
Broker-dealers and registered reps should not bear the burden of increased fees from Finra after the regulator's “failure to properly prepare for the inevitable market downturn,” according to a notice sent to broker-dealers last week from the Financial Services Institute.
Energy continues to be the theme for Jerry Jordan, manager of the $110 million Jordan Opportunity Fund <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?q=jordx&INDA=1&crit=&SearchCategory=CHART%3BREG%3BFREE%3BSUB&SearchProfile=1119&symbol=&targetURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.investmentnews.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Fsection%3Fcategory%3Dstocklookup&category=ETFLOOKUP&searchType=etf>(JORDX)</a>.
Investors are just not sure where the economy is headed. And so the stock market may be in limbo for a while.
Another key executive with the ING Advisors Network Inc. has stepped down, as the network's parent, ING Groep NV, continues an evaluation of the broker-dealers that could lead to their sale.
The insurance industry predicts a new boom in variable annuities as tax deferral takes the spotlight in the near future, but financial advisers and broker-dealers aren't convinced that this will help products fly off the shelves again.
Registered investment advisers last year reduced their asset management fees to the lowest level in 10 years, according to Rydex/SGI's annual Advisor Benchmarking Study.
The Insured Retirement Institute last week chose James A. Shepherdson, executive vice president of Axa Equitable, as the group's chairman.
Fidelity Investments said this morning it is expanding its clearing business into Canada, with the intention of serving U.S. broker-dealers looking for a toehold in the market, while also targeting Canadian broker-dealers.
National ratings agencies received criticism yesterday at a meeting of the insurance industry for their failure to properly rate residential mortgage-backed securities prior to the crisis.
The United States faces greater systemic risk today than it did a year ago, according to economist Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and professor at Columbia University's graduate business school.
Regulators and legislators clashed with members of the life settlements industry at a congressional hearing today that focused on the risks and merits of life settlements securitization.
About 270 registered reps and advisers are scrambling for a new broker-dealer to park their licenses after being notified just yesterday that their firm — Colonial Brokerage Inc. — will be shut down in November, according to sources both inside and outside of Colonial.
The Virginia College Savings Plan, the nation's largest Section 529 plan with over $23 billion in assets, will offer a fixed-income investment option nationally on BB&T Corp.'s online platform, beginning later this year.
