As competition intensifies to capture the 401(k) and other retirement plan business of small and midsize companies, wirehouses increasingly are allowing representatives who specialize in the niche to act as fiduciaries.
In one of my recent OpINion Online columns, I compared wirehouse management to communist regimes before the fall of the Berlin Wall
Barclays Wealth has hired Don Milich and Clifford Wang as investment representatives, based in Atlanta, as part of its effort to continue growing its wealth management operations in the U.S.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. announced today that it has hit Citigroup Global Markets Inc. with a monetary sanction for supervisory violations relating to its handling of trust funds belonging to cemeteries in two states.
Despite all the hoopla about breakaway brokers, most of the wirehouse representatives going to independent broker-dealers are relatively low producers who fit the B-Ds' packaged-product and fee-based model.
Big brokerage firms appear to have taken a break from their costly musical-chairs game of broker recruitment, according to executives and headhunters.
Peter Muller, who founded and leads Morgan Stanley's quantitative investment unit, bested 104 players last week to win the annual Wall Street Poker Night.
Richard Ziegelasch and Wendy Holmes, who managed $258 million in client assets, are on the move to Credit Suisse
Firms will never admit that they lost somebody good or admit that they hired somebody bad.
Edward Brokaw, a former Deutsche Bank AG broker, was barred from the securities industry for manipulating the price of Monogram Biosciences stock in an effort to enrich a hedge-fund client, himself and his family, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said today.
Douglas Johnson and Daniel Legan jumped to UBS and joined the firm's Indian Wells, California office.
The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard takes a different tack in its bid to eliminate the broker-dealer exclusion
Bank of America Corp. announced today that Kunal Kamlani has been named head of global investment solutions, reporting to his former colleague at Citigroup, Sallie Krawcheck, president of global wealth and investment management.
Wells Fargo Advisors, UBS, MSSB and Merrill Lynch made personnel changes this week
Citigroup Inc. won dismissal of a lawsuit by six former brokers who said they shouldn't have to pay back the balance on their signing-bonus loans totaling $1.51 million.
Regional brokerage firms and some independent investment advisers have been making hay hiring hundreds of discontented wirehouse brokers.
Fred C.C. “Corky” Crozier, the former head of private client services at Deutsche Bank's U.S. brokerage unit, has returned to the firm as a managing director and adviser in its Baltimore office.
After winning dismissal of a class action claim brought by six former Smith Barney brokers last month, Citigroup is vowing to go after the brokers for legal fees.
