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.
You'd think the U.S. dollar had bitten the dust from all the breathless reporting of its savaging in the foreign exchange market. From the headlines, you'd think the world was selling dollars in 2008 en masse. But it's been worse. Consider that...
Maybe your sales assistant is like Debbie Wagner who shuns vacation time to keep others from messing with clients, or maybe your assistant is more like Joni Schultz who arrives at work before sunrise.
Considering selling all or part of your book? Buyers don’t seem to have a preference for a business model—whether you are an investment manager, say, or a financial planner; what they do care about are present and future revenue streams.
The California Attorney General, Edmund “Jerry” Brown, is considering a request by 51 former IndyMac bank employees to investigate New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer’s role in the collapse of IndyMac Bank.
The editors of Registered Rep. are undertaking a comprehensive survey of sales assistants, and to complement our disclosure of the results, which will appear in our October issue, we would like to profile a number of outstanding SAs. But we need...
A federal judge gave final approval to a $33 million class-action settlement on Wednesday between Citigroup and current and former female financial advisors.
As you know, UBS reported a larger-than-expected second-quarter loss of $327 million today. Contributing to the dismal result was another $5.1 billion in U.S. mortgage related write-downs.
