In this section we present key findings and insights from our survey questions on practice management and operations, including services offered, the most time-consuming activities, professional designations, custody relationships and documentation trends.
It has been a sobering year for Wall Street, in many more ways than one. But for a tiny minority, the financial losses wrought by the careening market were nothing short of unbearable. Here, for example, is what Russell K. Smith, a stockbroker at...
As Wells Fargo begins its summer-long re-branding of Wachovia and A.G. Edwards, some financial advisors at what is now the largest retail brokerage firm in the U.S. 16,000 FAs say the integration of Wachovia and A.G. Edwards is still incomplete...
It wasn't long ago that Larry Rothenberg had the kind of problem most advisors would kill for. Sometime in 2004, he recalls, his team, which then consisted of three senior financial advisors, three junior FAs and six client associates (CA), was...
Hedgie Gets $62M Fine: Michael Lauer, head of Lancer management Group and Lancer Management Group II, two Connecticut-based hedge funds, was ordered on May 14 to fork over $62 million within 15 days as a result of being found liable on SEC fraud...
Valerie Brown spoke with Registered Rep. about her new role as CEO of ING Advisors Network. Registered Rep.: What's your first priority as newly appointed CEO of ING Advisors Network? Valerie Brown: My first priority is listening. I have been with...
Talk has run rampant lately of an exodus of advisors from Wall Street firms to independent b/ds, regional brokerage firms and RIAs. After all, the big national brands have been damaged by the mortgage meltdown, the takeovers and government...
As we addressed in our story Comfort Zone, on page 9, despite all of the talk about breakaway brokers leaving Wall Street and choosing independence, the majority of wirehouse advisors are not going for it. According to Discovery Database, more...
A recent decision out of New Jersey Estate of Stevenson v. Director, Division of Taxation1 illustrates a novel issue arising under the decoupled estate tax systems adopted by many states: the potential imposition of state death taxes on federal...
