While those of us who are mired deep in the minutia of the recruiting wars feel that the environment is as hot as ever, the trade press reporters who have called me have been asking why the movement has slowed. What's going on?
The industry-sponsored group that oversees stock brokers fined Merrill Lynch $500,000 Wednesday for failing to provide sales charge discounts to eligible customers on certain investments.
Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said Wall Street is like a church that benefits society, then falters by operating a gambling venture on the side.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC this month began imposing quarterly fees of $35 on households with total accounts under $25,000, the latest development in big brokerage firms' long-simmering campaigns to wean financial advisers from small accounts.
In an executive switch that creates an opening in its wrap account business, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has named a new chief operating officer and a new private-wealth-management head.
With dramatic changes re-shaping the brokerage industry in recent years, Danny Sarch wants to know: How will the wirehouses continue to make money?
UBS will rebuild its reputation and revenue by marketing the advisory strength of its brokers and minting better products for wealthy investors, according to its new CEO
Elliot Weissbluth calls suit an intimidation tactic designed to deter other advisers from leaving
Units of Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch & Co., UBS AG and Bear Stearns Cos. were sued by Charles Schwab Corp. over claims they lied or omitted information on mortgage-backed securities
Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that accused the Wall Street giant of misleading buyers of mortgage-related investments.
When it comes to controlling client assets, LPL Investment Holdings Inc.'s recent IPO registration offers clear proof that the remaining four wirehouse broker-dealers still dwarf the more diverse galaxy of independent broker-dealers.
UBS Financial Services Inc. said it hired Thomas G. McLoughlin, former chief executive officer of National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., as head of municipal bond research for its Wealth Management Americas unit.
Bank of America Corp. is re-branding its online-discount-brokerage platform under the Merrill Lynch imprint in an attempt to attract young investors, and reclaim assets of Merrill clients who keep self-directed brokerage accounts at rivals such as Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.
Although retention bonuses and deferred-payment recruiting packages have locked many top-producing brokers in place at wirehouses, a substantial number are still looking to break free.
Rules by themselves are never an answer.
Joseph Fortuna, Timothy Prete and Salvatore Tartaglione have left UBS for MSSB in Hartford, Conn.
James Flynn, Rance Hillier and Merritt Zahner will work out of the Madison, Conn. offices of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Here we are, in the midst of a trend to “breakaway Advisors,” where more and more Advisors are thinking of places to work outside of the big 4 firms.
Big trouble for Tiny Gallon? The Oklahoma athletic department is said to be looking into allegations that the Sooners' star basketball player received money from a financial adviser
New York City job losses in the Great Recession were far fewer than economists' dire predictions, and Wall Street profits last year soared to record levels on the back of near-zero interest rates and federal bailouts.
