Cetera Financial Group announced plans Monday to acquire Genworth Financial’s broker/dealer, Genworth Financial Investment Services (GFIS), expanding its network of broker/dealers. The move will add around 1,800 financial advisors who focus...
A legacy branch manager with Wells Fargo Advisors on the East Coast—let’s call him Joe—says he hasn’t had a raise in his base salary in more than a decade, despite the fact that revenues at his branch have increased tenfold, and he is now doing ...
Short equities. Why? Logically, it is clear that no one can spend more money than he has forever. It is also clear that there is too little political will to raise that critical fact as a reason for forcing the unpleasant changes in Europe (or Am...
After the volatility of 2011, forecasting has become a dicey business. A panel of experts at Prudential’s 2012 Global Economic and Retirement Outlook briefing today in Manhattan offered some tentative reasons to believe that better days are ahead...
San Francisco—“We’ve been talking about making changes in how we manage our practice, but we never seem to execute,” said Jim, the leader of a very successful wealth management team. He then laid out a challenge to his team: “We need to make three...
LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) has announced plans to acquire Rockville, Md.-based wealth management platform provider Fortigent, a move which executives and industry consultants say shows LPL’s commitment to the RIA space. Fortigent provides...
