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Merrill aims for 30% profit margins, but at what cost?
Bank of America Merrill Lynch should be able to top 30% pretax profit margins as retirement demographics and other tail winds help boost the business. But how it will team its brokerage and banking operations is an open question.
Account opening is No. 1 tech concern: Survey
Beacon finds 'client onboarding' has replaced social-media archiving as brokers' biggest technology challenge.
Payouts on the rise for wealth management executives
Executives across the industry, from wirehouses to independent and regional firms, are enjoying fatter paychecks and bigger bonuses as advisers become a more important part of firms' balance sheets. (Don't miss some rather outlandish top executive benefits.)
UBS Puerto Rico closed-end muni investors losing billions
UBS Puerto Rico closed-end muni bond fund investors are losing billions; new research pegs losses at $1.66 billion over the first nine months of 2013.
Wells Fargo Advisors’ head Mary Mack fills out her cabinet
Bob Vorlop and Joe Nadreau have been tapped to fill new executive roles focused on expanding the firm's technology platform and products
Recoupment of trainee fees impairs industry’s growth
Brokerage firms that pursue reimbursement of training costs from employees who leave are out of step with today's workforce
Krawcheck says advisory business still coming up short in reaching out to women
The trailblazer says the advisory business is still coming up short in reaching out to women, both as advisers and clients, and explains why.
Brokers face challenges in originating mortgages
More financial advisers are becoming licensed mortgage loan originators as full-service brokerage firms look to be one-stop shops for wealthy investors, but some regulatory gray areas are causing concern.
Finra freezes new arbitration cases in Puerto Rico
Finra freezes new arbitration cases in Puerto Rico as a flood of claims sends the regulator scrambling to find more arbitrators. Bruce Kelly has the story.
Merrill Lynch taps new head to expand training
Racquel Oden promoted to help ramp up newly restructured PMD program.
Wells Fargo gets aggressive to help advisers protect assets of elderly clients
Take Five interview with Ronald Long, head of Wells Fargo's new Elder Client Initiatives
Morgan Stanley to combine institutional, brokerage muni desks
Move is part of CEO Gorman's effort to partner brokerage, investment bank, drive return on equity.
Morgan Stanley wins dismissal of ‘pay to play’ suit
Ruling hinged on the firm's disclosure of revenue-sharing agreements.
An open letter to Next Generation financial advisers
“The times they are a'changing.” So said Bob Dylan in 1964. I am fairly certain he wasn't talking about the financial services industry, but now 50 years later, his message most definitely applies to our world.
UBS acquires $2.6 million Beverly Hills team from Merrill Lynch
Two Grueninger Group principals and an associate make the move.
Schwab offers independent advisers access to hot debt market
Firm hopes the move allows it to compete with Wall Street brokerages.
Wall Street bonuses rose 15% last year
Wall Street's bonus pool rose to $26.7 billion in 2013 as profits from broker-dealer operations on the New York Stock Exchange fell by 30%, according to estimates by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
Morgan Stanley shuffles top leadership with addition of new role
Firm shifts shifting some top brass to create a new role focused on strategy and client management.
HighTower grabs Merrill Lynch adviser managing $320M
Laurie C. Kamhi is breaking away from Merrill Lynch Wealth Management's Private Banking and Investment Group, where she managed $320 million for well-heeled clients and institutions.
Don’t let brokers keep watch on themselves
Bloomberg columnist William D. Cohan on the saga of Jill Wile, a former manager in the southeast regional office of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.
