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Long-term care expenses pose one of the greatest risks your clients will face in retirement. And unless your clients are wealthy enough to self-insure against that risk, long-term care insurance (LTCI) is the best way to mitigate it. Trouble is...

In testimony before Congress Thursday, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro made a case for an increase in the agency’s funding to $1.407 billion for 2012—describing the progress the SEC has made on internal reforms since she took the job two...

Morgan Stanley (MS) will lay off a total of 200 to 300 trainees and lower-producing financial advisers during the first quarter, and most of those cuts have already taken place, a source knowledgeable about the situation told Registered Rep. Dow...

A couple of law students from Oxford, Miss., backed by vocal investor advocate Mercer Bullard, have ambitious plans to create an SRO (self-regulatory organization) for investment advisers. Their group would rival FINRA, the SRO for broker/dealers...

Talent development is finally getting its day in the sun within banks’ wealth management departments, a development that many industry experts believe is long overdue.

The hybrid hype is growing. Independent broker-dealers have lately been ramping up their efforts to attract hybrid advisors, launching new recruiting efforts and rolling out integrated commission and fee-based platforms and hybrid-specific...

Bankers need to flaunt their status as fiduciaries to battle expected competition from broker/dealers,

Morgan Stanley is considering new names for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the 18,000-advisor retail brokerage joint venture it created in a deal with then-Smith Barney owner Citigroup, back in 2009.

In an email memo, Krawcheck, the head of Bank of America’s wealth management business, told Merrill’s thundering herd that the bank’s new “garden leave” employment policy agreement won’t apply to them. Under...

Wealth managers working for banks are grappling with the fallout of last year’s Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, according to top banking officials speaking at the opening general session of the American Bankers...