Non-Traded REIT’s American Realty Capital Properties to acquire Cole Real Estate Investments The price: $7.3 billion plus the assumption of $3.9 billion in debt, for a total of $11.2 billion. The acquisition, which is expected to close...

WealthManagement.com: What pressures are IBDs under these days? Wayne Bloom: Regulatory and compliance, leading to increased costs. And that’s multi-faceted reform; it’s Dodd-Frank; it’s pay-to-play, rules that resulted in this sort of pos...

Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Robert Shiller of Yale were the winners of the Nobel prize in economics.  At first glance, one might wonder how the Nobel prize could be awarded to research work done in the sa...

WealthManagement.com: This is a new role for you at Advisor Group. What is your strategy? Erica McGinnis: My main goal is to continue to work closely with our four broker/dealer presidents to continue to retain our advisors and recruit new...

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How Trust Company of America is bringing lean six sigma concepts to its custody platform and its advisors.

WealthManagement.com: What pressures are IBDs under these days? Jim Nagengast: The main pressure is the regulatory pressure. If you look at last year, we dealt with two major pieces of regulation—rule 2111 on the suitability guidelines and...

While advisors consider the recent battles among federal lawmakers as depressing the current economy, they are increasingly bullish on the near-term future of the stock market.

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