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NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley revealed on CNBC’s Closing Bell program last week that he invests with Raymond James Financial Services. Barkley says he works with Birmingham, Ala.-based advisor Glenn Guthrie. “I’ve been with him for 27 years...
FINRA is doing it again—stepping over the line. Its new proposal, the Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System, or CARDS, will require all registered representatives to regularly report all customer buys and sells as well as margin...
It looks like a wirehouse, it acts like a wirehouse, but it's not a wirehouse. | Robert Churchill/iStock/Thinkstock
Sure, the number of financial advisors is on the decline. But according to The Economist, it's the brokerages, rebranded as w...
Who's calling the Series 65 easy? | nPine/Thinkstock
Colorado-based financial planner James Osborne of Bason Asset Management suggests it is too easy to become an affiliate of a Registered Investment Advisor. That’s the downside of the shift...
Wirehouses still dominate the advisory market, but registered investment advisors and dually registered channels are gaining ground. According to estimates from Cerulli Associates, RIAs will increase marketshare to 28 percent by 2018 after having...