Over the last decade, trust law has undergone a transformative evolution. It's becoming commonplace for trust settlors to design so-called directed trusts and to transfer existing trusts to new jurisdictions to become modified as directed trusts...
Five months after Bank of America sold it off to private equity firms, First Republic Bank announced today that it plans to go public. The firm plans to raise $285.1 million, and will sell 11 million shares of common stock at an estimated price...
Record municipal bond outflows last week represent a short-term blip in the market, according to some industry sources. The underlying causes were uncertainty about tax rates and Build America Bond subsidies, as well as seasonal supply and demand...
CNBC star Jim Cramer may not have liked the valuation of the LPL Investment Holdings IPO, but investors sure did. The happiest people? LPL shareholders who sold off some of their stake in the company, the biggest independent broker/dealer in the...