Evan Shear thinks financial advisors lacking a social media presence are fools. Shear, a Raymond James advisor and founding partner of Heathrow, Fla.-based Crossley Shear Wealth Management, uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to connect to his...
How many of you went to business school? Don't everyone raise your hand at the same time now. While an MBA is hardly a requisite to be a financial advisor, business schools are still cranking out graduates by the droves. Which are the best of t...
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Since May 2012, Edward Jones has hired 1,250 military veterans as financial advisors. The firm, through its FORCES program, maintains an 11 percent military veteran ratio, and is on pace to hire 500 veteran...
Just months after the head of its RIA business unit left the firm, Scotttrade lost another high-level executive, this time President Matt Wilson...
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(Reuters) - Regulators are undertaking a comprehensive data-driven review of the rules underpinning the U.S. equity markets, including the pricing and rebate system used by exchanges, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said on...
(Reuters) - A number of high-profile brokers have left Bank of America Corp's (BAC.N) Merrill Lynch wealth management unit in recent weeks, and top executives at the company have grown concerned enough to ask business head John Thiel...
