Kristen French

Our interests may not always be the same as yours. Imagine telling your clients that. And then imagine saying 20 minutes later, But now that we're discussing your comprehensive planning needs, I'm acting in your best...

Hedge funds are not the money magnets they once were. While they continue to take in funds, they’re not doing it as fast as they once did.

Rumors swirled late Friday and Monday that Morgan Stanley, the struggling Wall Street powerbroker, was looking to takeover BlackRock, the successful institutional money manager. But a more likely scenario, say...

Three regional brokerage firms made Fortune magazine’s top 100 companies to work for this year: Edward Jones, AG Edwards, and Robert W. Baird

Securities Industry employment topped the 800,000 mark in November for the first time since February 2002, The gain of over 5,000 was the best monthly increase in the industry since June of last year.

Smith Barney might answer, quite a lot. The firm recently decided that its financial consultants should be renamed financial advisors and that high-end reps, now called vice presidents of will be rechristened as vice...

A bunch of old Citigroup asset managers will soon be without jobs when their funds are folded into Legg Mason funds. After Legg Mason and Citigroup closed their asset swap deal on Dec. 1, Legg announced in a...

The recent acquisitions of Legg Mason's retail brokerage by Citigroup and Advest by Merrill Lynch brought an interesting recruiting problem into high relief: Raiding. Simply put, there are some brokers who are too hot...