Sarah Teslik, CEO of the Certified Financial Planner Board, which monitors and supports the widely used CFP designation, announced in mid-October that she would resign from her post on Oct. 31 to take a position at Apache Corporation, an energy...
Wachovia Securities promoted Mary Mack to president of its Investment Services Group. She will replace Dwight Moody, who is scheduled to retire in 2007. Previously, Mack served as executive vice president and head of Wachovia Clients Partnership...
Wall Street's latest obsession is the fee-based financial advisor, a term that implies a holistic, goal-oriented approach to money management. Today, many of the bulge-bracket firms, and even more regional wirehouses, prefer this financial advisor...
HBO is coming to Wall Street. Well, not really, but the network has signed on a new comedy series about a 40-something hedge fund manager and his Wall Street pals. The creators of the show, who also developed HBO's Entourage series, say they got...
Structured products are flying off the shelves of U.S. brokerage firms, even if many reps and retail investors aren't sure how they work. The term generally refers to a financial instrument whose underlying asset comes with a downside-protection...
Morgan Stanley shareholders who are still reeling from the $52 million exit package given to former president and CEO Philip Purcell will be happy (OK, less angry?) to know he's giving a lot of it away. Purcell's most recent gift, $12.5 million to...
