Why have just one broker/dealer relationship when you can have three or four? Only one-third of affluent investors work with a single b/d, while 35 percent of investors are now working with two b/ds, and another 35 percent have relationships with...
Janney Montgomery Scott LLC hired Edward Walters as director of investments in the firm's wealth management division and David Mullan as director of performance reporting in the operations division. Walters joined from Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc....
Oscillation Productions is selling a CD called Playing the Market, a compilation of compositions based on patterns found in the stock market and other economic data. The album released in 2006 features 11 tracks, such as Long Bond Irrational...
Helping a client with estate planning usually means a discussion of trusts, life insurance, and various gifting strategies, which ostensibly will protect the client's family and finances in the decades after his death. Yet one related topic that...
Economist Paul Zane Pilzer considers himself to be an environmentalist. But he is not your average greenie. Indeed, Pilzer is something of an icononclast: There is no such thing as scarcity of natural resources, he argues. When humans were running...
It is no secret that Wal-Mart has an insatiable appetite for expanding the reach of the products and services it offers. But now, behold, the behemoth has ventured onto your turf: financial advice. Meet Wal-Mart Easy Investing by Sharebuilder. Wal...
Yes, it's easy to get sick of all this hype about the environmental movement. An Inconvenient Truth (whether you agree with its conclusions or not) won an Oscar; hottie celebs are driving hybrid automobiles; the press gushes about eco-related...
There will be a dramatic increase in the volume and complexity of trusts-and-estates disputes in the near future. It's time to embrace mediation as an alternative to formal litigation in probate and fiduciary matters. So I call on all responsible...
Probate litigation has changed drastically in the last several decades, particularly as nonprobate transfers have become an increasingly important way of moving assets from one generation to the next. For such transfers involving wrongdoing...
Citigroup Dinged $15 Million: The NASD settled with Citigroup Global Markets to the tune of $15.2 million for charges related to misleading documents and inadequate disclosure stemming from retirement seminars and meetings with BellSouth employees...
