Clients assets at UBS Wealth Management Americas outpaced withdrawals in its latest third-quarter results, as outflows finally stopped, a singular achievement last reported by the brokerage unit in the first quarter of 2009.
More investor money is making its way to the management of independent broker/dealer LPL Financial and the retail brokerage TD Ameritrade, the two companies said in earnings reports released today. Trading revenue (excluding asset-based fees and...
In an effort to attract more financial advisors who have--or would like to have--ultra-high net worth clients, Fidelity Investments is offering them the same high-end services it offers to family offices.
The brokerage business of Wells Fargo of San Francisco, and independent b/d Raymond James Financial Inc. of St. Petersburg, Fla., both reported sharply higher year-over-year profits in the third quarter.
Because of a steep drop in Morgan Stanley's institutional securities business in the third quarter, Global Wealth Management carried the day: it was the firm’s most profitable division for the quarter, earning $281 million. That's up a hair...
Merrill Lynch’s parent, Bank of America, today confirmed what advisors at the brokerage had known about the third quarter—investors kept their money at home, or at least, out of the market.
James Gorman and Sallie Krawcheck said it would be so. With markets stabilizing and bank-brokerage merger integrations progressing, fewer brokers are fleeing the big Wall Street wirehouse firms for the RIAs and independent b/ds in 2010. But those...
