Two years ago, over 20,000 advisors switched firms after the market tanked and three of the major Wall Street brokerage firms were swept up into shotgun marriages with other financial giants. Some advisors left Wall Street because they were...
The increasing importance that the advisor-assistant relationship plays in the loyalty of today's affluent client prompted the Oechsli Institute to conduct a study on advisors and assistants. Among numerous findings, we were able to uncover seven...
Regulators and industry participants continue to battle over what kinds of reforms should be made to money market funds. Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission held a roundtable on money market funds and systemic risk in which several...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission are stepping up their scrutiny of the accounting and audit process of broker/dealers, reviewing financials more closely and requesting data on a more frequent...
A whole lot of money should change hands in the next few years, as inheritances get passed down to the next generation, according to the Institute For Preparing Heirs. The industry buzz word for this: intergenerational wealth transfer. Today...
Advisors don’t appreciate how cautious clients have become, said speakers at the Investment Company Institute’s recent general membership meeting in Washington yesterday. Despite two years of rising markets, clients continue to hold...
Wells Fargo Advisors’ is looking for recruits in out of the way places. In April, Kent Christian, president of Wells Fargo Advisors’ financial services group, told a Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association conference that...
Portfolio manager at Motley Fool Asset Management, a division of The Motley Fool in Alexandria, Va.
New SEC rules that require federally-registered advisors to disclose their disciplinary histories in brochures and provide them to clients will get under way in earnest by the end of the summer. The initiative, aimed at improving transparency for...
