During its National Conference in Orlando, Fla., this week, independent broker/dealer Securities America announced its new social media program, which will allow all of its 1,800 reps to access and post content on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in...
With the breakaway broker debate raging, and smaller independent b/ds imploding all over the place, we launched our first Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card survey.
Variable annuities get a bad rap for a reason: they're so often used to abuse seniors. Despite a big coordinated effort among regulators to stamp out such abuse in recent years, plenty of fraudsters still manage to fly under the radar. Take one...
As long-time readers know, we've been conducting a financial advisor satisfaction survey how FAs really feel about their firms for 19 years. With the rise of the independent broker/dealer, we thought we'd take the pulse of how independent...
Kathleen A. Muldoon is passionate about The Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas. It's a hospital that is known in some distant parts of the world its trauma specialists have trained doctors at every hospital in Israel, for example. But it...
Father-daughter advisor team Martin Gelb and Sonya Gelb Choeff have jumped ship to Raymond James in Miami Beach, Fla., from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, as the fight for talent continues.
