In a rapid series of deals, Focus Financial's shared services platform, Connectus Wealth Advisers, acquired U.K.-based Trident Financial Planning Limited, Massachusetts-based New England Investment & Retirement Group and Australia-based MISSO...
More than half of the firm's employees will be expected to work in the office at least three days a week.
Naseem Mohammed Salamah is charged with stealing nearly $970,000 from three elderly clients and spending the funds on vacations and luxury car leases.
The danger of self-directed IRA scams heightened during the pandemic, as many investors were at home and online but isolated from in-person interaction, NASAA says.
Franklin Templeton joins a wave of deals in the direct or custom indexing space, with its plan to acquire O'Shaughnessy Asset Management and its custom indexing platform, Canvas.