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The FT reports today that “overseas investors bought up Japanese equities at the fastest pace in three years in January as global asset managers rebalanced portfolios towards the country’s equity market from underweight positions.” For more...
UBS’ U.S. wealth management division posted income of CHF $178 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 62 percent versus the year ago quarter. Clients continued to withdraw significant assets from the firm both in the U.S. and around the...
At last week’s TD Ameritrade Institutional’s national conference last week, there was much discussion about China. Is China’s growing economic might good for the U.S.? For the world? Is China, giving its despotic government...
UBS’s Wealth Management Americas division is aiming to bolster the Swiss bank’s brokerage, internally announcing significant management changes on top of a substantial reorganization: It consolidated three brokerage regions into two...
The New York Attorney General’s office today charged Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis with fraud for failing to disclose material details about Merrill Lynch in its merger with the brokerage. The move takes the case one step further than the...
Bank of America plans to add 2,000 new brokers in 2010, mostly trainees. One analyst says Merrill may want these hires to help with BofA’s cross-selling efforts.
Fidelity announced the latest in a series of price cuts Tuesday. But the move has less to do with an ongoing price war between itself and Schwab than with the firm’s decision to eliminate discrepancies between pricing offered to its RIA...
Will the regulatory push for a uniform fiduciary standard die on the vine? Brokers may not be best equipped to predict regulatory outcomes, but most of them do not expect such a standard to be implemented, according to survey results released...
If you visit William Mundy at his Blue Bell, Pa. office, chances are good you’ll find him with his ear pressed to the phone, pitching his services to people he’s never met: That’s right, cold calling.
Eager to raise cash and get out from under taxpayer loans, PNC Financial Services Group is looking to sell its custody and clearing division, PNC Global Investment Servicing to Bank of New York Mellon.
