Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N), the No. 1 U.S. bank by market value, reported a 3.5 percent fall in quarterly profit on Friday as it set aside more money to cover potential loan losses...
(Bloomberg) -- UBS Group AG, the world’s biggest manager of money for rich people, imposed a partial hiring freeze at its wealth-management business as part of efforts to cut costs, said two people with knowledge of the matter...
Big U.S. banks looking to wealth management to shore up their profits may have to wait for another year according to analysts, who expect market volatility to keep the business subdued throughout 2016...
SYM Financial Corp.’s roots go back 60 years—plenty of time to have explored a few business iterations. The firm sold insurance and other products and operated a record-keeping business for 401(k) plans. Then, in the early 1990s, the...
Derek Holman and Brian E. Parker had a leg up on their peers when they founded EP Wealth Advisors, an RIA in Torrance, Calif., in 1999. The two, ages 43 and 42, respectively, have been friends since middle school and each served as best man at the...
Jeff Dekko, chief executive at Wealth Enhancement Group in Plymouth, Minn., says his hybrid RIA has big expansion plans, but he denies buying businesses simply for their size. He wants the firm to become a national brand known for its financial...
An advisor team led by Carrie Gallaway and Andrew Stern has left Lebenthal Wealth Advisors and partnered with Dynasty Financial Partners. The two managing partners have launched YorkBridge Wealth Partners, with offices in New York and...
With the Department of Labor’s release in April of rules governing new fiduciary responsibilities for advisors who advise on retirement plans, FAs large and small are beginning to come to terms with what will be expected of them. For the...
A Morgan Stanley team with about $600 million in assets left the firm and partnered with an existing Cleveland-based registered investment advisory to launch a new RIA. The goal of the new firm, One Seven, is to provide an ongoing service...
HighTower Advisors has recruited an advisor team with about $300 million in assets from Securities America. J.M. Egan Wealth Advisors, led by Managing Partner John Egan, will now be known as The Egan Group at HighTower...