Jordan Waxman can handle the Ironman—he’s planning to run his fifth and sixth triathalons this year—but he couldn’t handle Bank of America bureaucracy.
When LPL Financial, a self-clearing independent broker/dealer, rolled Pacific Life's broker/dealers onto its self-clearing platform in 2009, many advisors protested. But for Jennifer Tanck, president of Independent Financial Partners, an LPL...
Independent broker-dealer WFP Securities went out of business fighting claims they put clients into risky private placements and non-traded REITS. Yesterday, they got a bit back.
Five years after blowing up his firm in the mortgage crisis, Stanley Brooks was ordered to pay the maximum penalty of $10 million for fraud charges by a federal judge in Los Angeles.
While retail investors are exiting equity mutual funds like no other, dividend-focused mutual funds are actually reaping the benefits of investors’ search for yield.
You can’t very well tell the IRS that their check is in the mail. But a new iPad application by Fidelity Investments allows investors to make deposits into Fidelity IRAs via the Apple tablet. Taxpayers can use the iPad camera to photograph...
In this excerpt from his book Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments, Joshua Brown comes clean about some of the more dangerous investment products Wall Street...
As clients, attorneys and advisors were just getting comfortable with the beneficiary defective inheritor's trust (BDIT), certain practitioners have attempted to extend its use and structure. Many of these attempted extensions, referred to in...
IRS seeks comments on tax consequences of decanting In Notice 2011-101, the Internal Revenue Service requested comments regarding the income, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax issues and consequences arising from trust...
