David Geracioti

What, no more golf balls? No free fancy lunches? Dinner? No drinks? Financial advisors who grew accustomed to the little and sometimes not so little treats that mutual fund wholesalers lavish on them may have noticed...

Merrill Lynch recently moved Mark Casey, who has been with the firm since 2001, to its new Private Banking and Investment Group office in Dallas, where he will oversee the so-called Texas region of that group...

If you think too many baby boomers are blissfully ignorant of their own financial future, just turn your attention to Washington, D.C. Peter G. Peterson, author of Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform...

Smith Barney has introduced a new segmentation program designed to offer benefits to clients based on the level of assets they keep with the firm. Among the major attributes of the program is a new Citibank credit...

Firms proved exceedingly supportive of reps affected by this year's devastating hurricane season. Many of the nation's largest broker/dealers helped Florida-based reps with compensation for September, as officials at...

Watch the expressions on the faces of your friends as you lie down on your beach blanket and pull out the 688-page tome, A History of Interest Rates. Nope, it is not a sexy title for a book. Yet, the book is a classic...

Manuel Asensio, 49, is either a great investor and do-gooder or an evil exploiter and bully it all depends upon whom you talk to. As Asensio notes in his book, Sold Short (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), he has been...

Imagine $13 billion evaporating. Poof. Gone from the financial services system. If 12b-1 fees are prohibited, financial advisors collectively would lose about that much per year in income. That's not an exact number...