Blas Catalani, a former sales manager at Merrill Lynch’s San Antonio office, is suing a female ex-broker and her lawyer on grounds that the two women conspired to get him fired.
It's been five years since my brother Matthew Burke was murdered when terrorists flew an airplane into the north tower of the World Trade Center, trapping him and his colleagues above the burning crash line and...
There were an unprecedented 89 mergers or acquisitions involving fund-management firms in the first half of 2006. Buyers spent at least $13.5 billion in disclosed and estimated dollars
Larry Fink is something of a rock star. For starters, Fink has built his asset-management company, the New York-based BlackRock, into the third-largest bond manager in the U.S., with some $450 billion in assets.
Kevin Rowell is no stranger to advisors. A longtime executive at some of the nation's largest broker-sold fund shops, he was recruited away from Charles Schwab in January to boost slumping sales at Pioneer Investments
Quantitative mutual funds, dubbed “black box” investments for their strict adherence to quantitative metrics and technical analysis, have come into vogue this year
Separately managed accounts (SMAs)are no longer the new kids on the block, but they continue to grow at a steady pace. Assets in SMAs have nearly doubled over the past five years, to $774 billion
Earlier this month, a Bridgeport, Conn., judge slapped a temporary restraining order (TRO) on a pair of sibling reps after they ditched their jobs at Merrill Lynch’s Stamford branch to join Morgan Stanley.
Wachovia's decision to let employee reps transfer to its independent channel will help it retain top producers, but will it squeeze margins? Other firms will be watching
