In the heyday of national brokerage firms, there were no less than a dozen major players, all of which have consolidated into the four legacy wirehouses we know today: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo Advisors and UBS...
The number of billionaires grew by 7 percent over the past year, but the number of billionaires crossing the $10 billion threshold remains a rarified event.
According to the 2014 Billionaire Census published by Wealth X and UBS, there are 2,32...