Many brokerage-industry watchers agree that mergers and acquisitions can be rather tiresome for clients, eroding their confidence in the firms and, often, in the reps, too. Considering the wave of deal-making in the brokerage industry of late, you...
Cleves Delp, an LPL Financial-affiliated advisor in Maumee, Mo., with $1.5 billion in assets under management, says he's been looking into starting his own RIA. When you cross the billion dollar mark, you kind of have to consider the RIA option...
A lot of JPMorgan Chase employees are going to be in search of new digs very soon. The firm is expected to shed itself of 4,000 of its own staff about half of whom will be replaced by incoming Bear Stearns employees. But not all of Bear's ranks...