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With advisors actively mobilized against the Department of Labor’s fiduciary proposal, the Financial Services Institute is now turning its sights to investors with a new initiative that gives consumers a chance to weigh in...
As Craig Iskowitz of the Ezra Group points out, Cerulli research shows investment portfolios managed by financial advisors underperform those they can get through the home office, but yet Rep as Portfolio Manager programs are the fastest growing...
Three years ago, state examiners supplanted the SEC as overseers for thousands of mid-level RIAs, prompting dire warnings of death by inept bureaucracy. What actually happened? These advisors lived to tell the tale.
The independent channel is still the fastest growing advisory model, a trend that should continue despite the rise of robo-assisted, do-it-yourself investors.
Three owners of brokerages are campaigning to be elected to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s board of governors, the group that oversees Wall Street's regulator, with a similar messages: Stop antagonizing smaller firms...
A U.S. federal judge on Monday granted the Certified Financial Planning Board’s bid to throw out a lawsuit filed by two Florida-based advisors, challenging the organization’s decision to sanction the two for their use of...
Globally, assets under management hit a record high of $74 trillion in 2014, yet asset managers are making less on every dollar invested; net revenues fell 0.8 basis points, on an asset-adjusted basis, from 2013, according to the Boston Consultin...
It’s not unusual for a financial services firm to host an event to drum up business and sign clients. But Anderson Financial’s idea of a client event is anything but “strictly corporate.&rdquo...
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Financial advisor and Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz wonders why, with Greece on the brink of collapse, stock markets down 2 percent in one day and volatility spiking, the pri...
