My client has money with me, refers clients to me, and quite frankly, is a great friend of mine. His wife has given me a million to invest for her. Only, she has kept this money separate from him; it was an inheritance from her mother. He keeps...
Why have just one broker/dealer relationship when you can have three or four? Only one-third of affluent investors work with a single b/d, while 35 percent of investors are now working with two b/ds, and another 35 percent have relationships with...
It is no secret that Wal-Mart has an insatiable appetite for expanding the reach of the products and services it offers. But now, behold, the behemoth has ventured onto your turf: financial advice. Meet Wal-Mart Easy Investing by Sharebuilder. Wal...
Citigroup Dinged $15 Million: The NASD settled with Citigroup Global Markets to the tune of $15.2 million for charges related to misleading documents and inadequate disclosure stemming from retirement seminars and meetings with BellSouth employees...
Are you an advisor or a broker? Yes, we know, you're a financial advisor, or a wealth manager or whatever fancy term you use to win clients and gather assets. And that's just the problem: Many Series 7 holders out there are positioning themselves...
Registered Rep. spoke with Mark Goldberg (former CEO of Royal Alliance Associates) about his new endeavor, Private Wealth Management, which provides independent wealth management firms with capital to help them grow. Registered Rep.: What does...
Broker-dealers got the breathing room they hoped for on Monday with regards to complying with the recent court ruling that outlaws fee-based brokerage accounts. A federal court granted an SEC-requested 120 day stay, until October 1st, for firms to...
The sub-prime lending meltdown could be spreading. It’s one thing for Bear Stearns to have to arrange a $3.2 billion bailout of one of its hedge funds, but, for the brokerage industry, the problem just hit closer to home...
Mary Schapiro unveiled yesterday the new name it has selected for the new NASD/NYSE regulatory combo: SIRA, which stands for Securities Industry Regulatory Authority, but sounds a little bit more like some ugly winged creature out of Dungeons &...