BofA's Global Wealth and Investment Management, which includes Merrill Lynch, reported $506 million in net income for the quarter. Merrill Lynch contributed the bulk of revenues, with $3.5 billion, up from $3.1 billion a year ago.
Client assets at Advisor Services hit $697.8 billion, up 17 percent YOY, while net new assets reached $10.6 billion, up 4 percent.
Might some of your single clients unknowingly need life insurance? “One typical reason young people (in their 20s and 30s) buy life insurance is to protect their insurability,” says Ronald Klein, assistant vice president at Sun Life...
SIFMA sent a letter to the SEC Thursday that recommends a new fiduciary standard that would be more rules-based and that would depend on individual client contracts for its application.
VWG Wealth Management, with assets of $700 million, is the fifth wirehouse team this year to join HighTower Advisors, a Chicago-based hybrid RIA with national reach and $18 billion in AUM. HighTower signed up three Merrill Lynch teams in Palm...
RIMM will continue to lose market share, and face declining revenue, margins and average selling prices. The end result will be a firesale of RIMM, perhaps to Dell (DELL), MSFT, or an East Asian hardware maker...
