Some clients take years to fire their advisers
If the Labor Department has its way, say goodbye to the variable annuity industry as we know it. </br><b><i>(Related: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20160221/ANNUITY22016" target="_blank">Spotlight on Annuity Strategies special report</a>)</b></i>
Policies and procedures which, when layered upon already onerous rules and regulations, fail to recognize advisers' years of experience and wisdom.
Court filings from the RCAP bankruptcy proceeding state that Cetera Financial Group's adviser headcount has fallen 4.3%.
The company doesn't specify how many of its 9,000 Cetera brokers will qualify, or any other details of the plan.
Markets will `go south' without progress, bond manager says
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> So far this year, the deal-making business has been in the tank. Mergers and IPOs have dropped to a level not seen since the last recession.
Security Benefit, Allianz and New York Life all debuted new fixed annuity products in March that seek to benefit investors in a rising-rate environment.
The insurer allegedly made false representations to investors over the strength of its long-term-care business.
A Health Savings Account is one of the best ways to have retirement cash-flow that is excluded from Medicare's equation.
Clients will appreciate candor, but they're not always prepared to apply what they hear.
Only 5% of clients left the wirehouses last year because they felt fees were too high
Share these timely IRA reminders with your clients and their CPAs.
IBD sets plan a month after activist investor Marcato Capital took a 6.3% stake.
The deal is the latest sign of ramped-up dealmaking in the RIA industry.
Fed officials touting possible April rate hike stir markets
There's a secret list that Citigroup Inc. keeps on its equity-research desk at its swank new campus in Tribeca. And if you're not on it &mdash; well, you might as well be nobody.
Overall, workers are much more optimistic about their prospects for a comfortable retirement following lows in the recent financial crisis.
Updated accounting processes and technology are within reach &mdash; and could help stem disputes.
The brokerage is making a push to grab $50 billion in retail deposits currently held by its rivals.
