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.
Ah, nevermind about those asset sales. AIG is no longer planning on selling businesses to pay back the government’s $85 billion loan, Bloomberg reports. Instead the company may give stakes in some businesses directly to the government.
On Friday, hours after Wachovia Securities told managers that the firm’s financial advisors would not receive any retention bonus, Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley reps got some good news: Some extra cash is on the way. Top producers at both...
Danny Ludeman, head of Wachovia Securities, told managers earlier today that financial advisors would not receive any retention bonus. He will hold a conference call with financial advisors at 1 p.m. central time, said Wachovia spokesman Tony...
There are some folks in the industry actually doing relatively well these days. Seriously. LPL Financial said today its new-ish RIA platform now has over $1 billion in new assets.
Just as the various stock indices were testing November lows, the SEC announced what appears to be another mini-Madoff: Robert Allen Stanford and three of his financial companies have been charged with orchestrating an $8 billion fraud.
In the 18th century there might have been a public flogging or a stint in the town square's pillory, but would the pre-credit-crunch world have condemned Wall Street leaders and members of Congress to the gallows?
Merrill Lynch has been on a wild roller coaster ride since Bank of America stepped in to save the franchise on September 15 with an all-stock offer worth $50 billion.
