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Pershing names COO to the top spot as DeCicco eyes retirement.

Negative interest rates might actually be good for gold prices, writes Alex Rosenberg on CNBC. Rosenberg argues that ultra-low inflation (rising inflation is typically needed for gold to rise, hence the long-term dip in gold prices) could sen...

Better than tech stocks. | wolfgangwoehrle/iStock/Thinkstock Over 93 percent of investors on Openfolio, a platform for investors to share portfolios and performance, lost money last month. The few who had positive returns held more in cash...

The next generation? | Comstock Images/Stockbyte/Thinkstock Financial advisors should fear not just the current iteration of robo advisors, but also what they could become, writes Russ Alan Prince for Forbes. He said that while robo adviso...

They're just like the rest of us. TD Ameritrade said millennials were invested heavily in individual stocks last year, representing 28 percent of new accounts opened at TD in 2015. Millennial investors really aren’t as different as some su...

After just two months in the role, Larry Roth has stepped down from his role as CEO of RCS Capital (RCAP), the struggling parent of Cetera Financial Group that plans to file a prearranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy by the end of the month...

In their new book, The Sustainable Edge: 15 Minutes a Week to a Richer Entrepreneurial Life, released this week, top advisors Ron Carson and Scott Ford share their disciplines and career successes to help business owners achieve a better work-lif...

RBC’s wealth management head John Taft will retire in May after over a decade in the role, the company announced Thursday. Under his leadership, the firm has grown to 1,900 financial advisors and more than $273 billion in assets under...

Morgan Stanley (MS.N) has promoted its head of institutional securities, Colm Kelleher, to president, prompting Greg Fleming, the head of wealth management, to leave the bank. Gorman sent a firm-wide memo on Wednesday announcing Kelleher’s pro...