For firms that don’t pay their arbitration awards, Wall Street’s self-regulator plans to bar them from the industry and could seek to impose new rules to make collecting awards easier for investors...
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It seems that if you want the best-performing portfolio, along with a croissant, head to France. According to analysis performed by Natixis Global Asset Manag...
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A growing number of advisors and investors are catching on to sustainability investing; U.S. managed assets that invest using environmental, social and corporate governance and other s...
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BlackRock is not only the largest asset manager in the world based on assets under management, but it is also the asset management company that most financial professionals want...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s recently announced review of firms’ internal compliance culture, as well as its recent crackdown of repeat offenders and the firms that employ them, has caused grumbling throughout the industry.
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Today’s best offices of supervisory jurisdiction deploy professional business consultants, guerrilla marketing and innovative transition strategies to large pools of independent brokers.
MetLife said goodbye to its insurance agents this week, with the announcement to sell its Premier Client Group to MassMutual for about $300 million. The move could lead other insurers to divest their captive broker/dealers, as they focus their...
The industry continues to struggle to attract young, talented advisors, especially on the independent side. But the FAs here, who all carry the CFP designation, are the exception. These up-and-coming advisors have built solid practices from a...
