Certainly, going indie has a lot of appeal. And there are lots of stories of happy former wirehouse brokers who have flourished on their own. But it doesn't just happen. Take, for example, the wirehouse rep from...
Eric Hernandez, a financial advisor at UBS Securities, one day realized that he just couldn't make another cold call. For Hernandez, who had been with UBS for five years, and with Prudential Securities four years...
American Funds Distributors is the fund company that said no. While in the past few years many funds sued by regulators have been quick to settle, American, the second-largest fund family in the U.S. with $650 billion...