Chances are the Securities and Exchange Commission announcement about its newly created Investor Advisory Committee will get plenty of eye rolls.

Dick Bove, the outspoken analyst covering financial stocks, says a new "golden age" for banks is on the horizon.

Welcome Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Boy, that is a mouth full. Today, the deal merging Citi’s brokerage (Smith Barney) with Morgan Stanley’s Global Wealth Management Group is closed—ahead of schedule. (It was set to close in the...

Unbeknownst to many tax practitioners, the Internal Revenue Service has an alternative dispute resolution program called Fast Track Settlement (FTS). The IRS developed this program in response to taxpayer complaints about the sometimes...

Almost two years after their firm imploded, 16 brokers from Brookstreet Securities may have come to justice. The SEC today charged 10 brokers from the now defunct firm with fraud for marketing risky mortgage-backed derivatives as conservative...

A survey released yesterday of the nation’s wealthiest individuals reveals that wealth management’s biggest, most powerful brands—including UBS, Wachovia, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs—have lost a lot of credibility...

As Wells Fargo begins its summer-long re-branding of Wachovia and A.G. Edwards, some financial advisors at what is now the largest retail brokerage firm in the U.S.—16,000 FAs—say the integration of the Wachovia and A.G. Edwards is...

Surprise exams and reviews by third party accountants: These are the new measures the SEC proposed on Thursday to combat ponzi schemes like the one Bernie Madoff pulled off last December. Ponzi schemes have been piling up over the past several...

Can a rank-and-file Series 7 holder who works for a major national broker/dealer ever truly work as a fiduciary? Go to VonAldo.com, the blog of Registered Rep. Editor-in-Chief David A. Geracioti.

At the Investment Company Institute’s 51st General Membership meeting last week in Washington, D.C., speaker after speaker warned that the financial crisis has changed markets permanently.