The record deal volume in the first quarter is being attributed to multiple factors, not the least of which is President Joe Biden's threats to hike capital gains taxes.
IQ-EQ will acquire Concord Trust Co., which manages $2.9 billion.
The acquisition gives Hub another $2.4 billion in assets under management.
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One bad broker making big bets or selling lousy or misunderstood products can damage or even ruin a firm. Are firms doing enough to keep those brokers and high-risk behaviors in check?
The problem is largely a result of the multivendor systems common in teachers’ supplemental retirement plans. Brokers descend on unsophisticated teachers at work and sometimes at home, mostly offering high-priced annuities.
Recently, Nebraska, Idaho and North Dakota passed rules matching NAIC’s standard, joining other states on the roster: Arkansas, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Michigan and Rhode Island.
The trade group says its members could save as much as 50% over the cost of health coverage on the open market.
The giant asset manager also intends to add technology workers at operations centers.
Ulf Erlandsson spends his time pushing fixed-income investors and bankers to face up to the risks posed by climate change and their role in underwriting a warmer planet.
Jeter, whose teams won five World Series, retired from baseball after the 2014 season and is currently the CEO of the Miami Marlins.
Wagner Wealth Management, based in Greenville, South Carolina, has seven reps.
Charles Stephen, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based firm with four advisers, will affiliate through super-OSJ AmeriFlex.
The bank's sale of $5 billion of shares owned by Archegos on March 25, the day before the deluge of block trades by other firms, helped Morgan Stanley emerge largely unscathed from the fund's flameout.
The level of knowledge is improving but the public still needs guidance on decisions about claiming benefits.
Advisers thinking of making a move should evaluate firms on what they're doing and what they've done, not on how big or small they are.
People who self-directed their investments shifted to more conservative allocations, with an average decrease in equities by 17 percentage points during the first quarter of 2020.
The invested money reached $23.8 billion at the end of 2020, up more than 51% from the $15.7 billion seen at the end of 2019, according to a report Monday from HSA research and consulting firm Devenir.
74% of women are interested in increasing the share of environmental, social and governance investments in their portfolio, according to an RBC survey of U.S. clients.
Veteran advisers Kellie Rixse and business partner Jeff Todd make move in Anchorage, Alaska.
