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.
TD Ameritrade Institutional executives, in Las Vegas for the firm's annual conference, have got their swagger back this year after spending last year's event sounding contrite.
Here’s a possible new twist in the changing financial services landscape: A report in the New York Post raises the possibility of a “joint venture” between the wealth management divisions of Wachovia Securities and UBS. A lot of...
Schwab's CEO, said all the things that registered investment advisors would want to hear from their asset custodian chief on Thursday during an earnings call with analysts.
A lot can happen in a few years. Back in 2005, Morgan Stanley was at risk of losing its wealth management business during a very public conflict between then-CEO Philip Purcell and its shareholders. Today, Morgan is on the verge of creating the...
RR: As a rep with AIG, how have you handled client concerns? MG: Since we're independent, our clients are comfortable that it's Meg Green & Associates they're doing business with; our brokerage firm is Royal Alliance Associates. We've never...
Yes, it's true that the commercial real estate industry is suffering from increasing vacancies, decreasing rents and declining property values. Call it a trifecta of bad news. Yet, for bottom-feeders er, contrarians this might be a good time to...
Bernard Madoff’s astonishing fraud has accelerated calls for regulatory overhaul that had already begun with the credit crisis. then again, the regulatory system was antiquated. The real problem for retail financial advisors: Your clients no...
It was yet another cold and rainy January morning in New York City and the NYSE's morning bell would not be rung for another hour. I sat in my office waiting for my client let's call him Joe, a top producing financial advisor for a major firm in...
