It's shaping up to be a record year for bank failures.

Christopher E. Baggini has been appointed as senior portfolio manager/security analyst at Turner Investment Partners. Baggini previously was the lead portfolio manager of the Aberdeen Equity Long-Short Fund, which won Lipper Fund Awards for the...

MetLife is making new inroads with what some call the “mass retail” investor segment. Six months after launching a platform that welcomes clients with as little as $10,000 to invest, the MetLife Broker-Dealer Group has accumulated $160...

Maybe financial planning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, it’s been held out as a “must have” service, especially during down markets. But it turns out it doesn’t really give advisors a leg up in winning...

Apparently not all advisors and their clients have been following the developments leading to the much anticipated Wall Street reform package Congress released last Friday. In fact, overall advisors and investors are still confused about what the...

The nervous-client-syndrome has yet to wear off. That’s according to a new survey that says most advisors are still spending the majority of their time with existing clients rather then generating new business.