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.

The dismal morale among UBS brokers seems to be improving of late. A number of top financial advisors at the firm say that they are so far very pleased with the leadership of UBS Wealth Management CEO Bob McCann, and the team of people he has...

Charles Goldman, the president who oversaw Fidelity Investments’ services for financial advisors, will leave at the end of March, the second top manager in a week to depart from the mutual fund giant. Also exiting Fidelity is the company&...

LPL’s hybrid RIA platform got a strong start in its first full year in operation, and LPL says 2010 will be an even bigger year.

Affluent investors rated Charles Schwab the number one “distributor” or brokerage firm, bumping Fidelity into second place, according to Cogent Research’s recently released 2010 Investor Brandscape report.

We present our annual Outstanding Advisor Awards each May, but we’re always on the lookout for charitably inclined financial advisors.

Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney nor Bank of America ended 2009 with a bang in the earnings department. But their wealth management units were pockets of strength.

What's wrong with the hybrid model --- being both a Series 7 and IAR of an RIA? Citi Personal Wealth Management advisors want to know.

I don’t get it. I thought Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said the government would earn -— as in profit —- from its TARP loans about $20 billion. So why all this nonsense about punitively taxing bankers’ bonuses and...