As the Senate this week wades through scores of amendments to legislation on financial regulatory reform, lobbyists are going toe-to-toe over applying a fiduciary standard.
Rush “Rusty” Benton, who founded WealthTrust LLC in 1997 to buy majority stakes in independent wealth management firms, is stepping down as chief executive officer of the company and will assume the new role of chairman, he said Thursday.
The pace of mergers-and-acquisitions activity among independent advisers has been slow this year amid continuing economic uncertainty, but the fundamentals behind combinations have remained strong, according to a new study.
Businesses that specialize in consolidating independent-advisory firms — particularly, consolidators known as roll-ups — are under strain, according to participants in the ventures, investment bankers and consultants.
President Barack Obama's success as an author continued to add to his wealth last year as he and first lady Michelle Obama reported having assets of between $2.3 million and $7.7 million.
The software billionaire's father is spearheading an initiative to impose a state tax on Washington's wealthy
The hearings last week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations into The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s behavior during the mortgage bubble was a show trial designed to deflect responsibility for the bubble and its aftermath from Washington.
This is obviously a big panicked reaction. It could last for days or be over by tomorrow but recognize it for what it is, a panic.
Of the 172 new adviser teams that joined Schwab in 2009, fully 42% went to existing RIAs. That's a big change from previous years
My friends at <a href=www.businesshealth.com>Business Health</a>, an international consulting firm that specializes in financial advisory businesses, recently came out with a report comparing the financial “health” of Australian advisory practices today with their condition in 2007.
Why 20 advisers shelled out $300 apiece in hopes of finding ways to use social-media in their respective businesses.
Three former UBS advisers form an independent registered investment advisory firm called Mississippi Investment Management.
Stifel Financial Corp., which has been expanding its Stifel Nicolaus & Co. retail- brokerage business aggressively, is about to make a push into serving registered investment advisers.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a big gamble by going after The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Wall Street's premier investment bank has the will and legal firepower to fight back.
In the first quarter this year, more than half of the transactions involved advisers with $250 million or less in assets. Historically, these smaller advisers accounted for just a third of deals.
How can an Advisor or a Firm "own" someone else's money?
The firm says it will once again accept the assets in its custody unit
The top firms are starting to expand payrolls, albeit gradually. If form follows, non-banks will soon start adding more employees, too
Investors claim Curtis Lyman sold them promissory notes in a feeder fund for $1.4B scam
