Fairly or unfairly, gambling and strip clubs have always been associated with slick, fast-talking Wall Street brokers. And while most financial advisors would argue that this is nothing more than an unfortunate stereotype, the headlines continue...
Although many other states have increasingly recognized the tort of intentional interference with an inheritance, New Jersey has been slow to do so, flirting with it. Many practitioners prefer to bring the tort action rather than a straight undue...
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One of the last claimants from the 1997 class-action discrimination lawsuit against Merrill Lynch collected her reward late last month. Separately, Morgan Stanley has confirmed that it settled with over 3,000 claimants but would not comment...
RBC Dain Rauscher is in acquisition mode. The Midwest regional is set to purchase New Jersey-based J.B. Hanauer, an employee-owned firm with $10 billion in assets under management.
A California broker/dealer has sued to stop the merger of the NYSE and the NASD, and the firm is looking for like-minded folks to join its cause.
Financial planners who hold the Certified Financial Planning designation have been tussling with the CFP Board, which controls the CFP designation, over the designation’s ethical standards. Well, it looks like the tussling will continue.