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Senator Tim Johnson (R- S.D.), incoming Senate Banking Committee Chair, began floating an amendment last week that would eliminate from Senate regulatory reform legislation the application of a fiduciary standard to investment advice provided by...
The New York Attorney General’s office today charged Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis with fraud for failing to disclose material details about Merrill Lynch in its merger with the brokerage. The move takes the case one step further than the...
Fidelity announced the latest in a series of price cuts Tuesday. But the move has less to do with an ongoing price war between itself and Schwab than with the firm’s decision to eliminate discrepancies between pricing offered to its RIA...
Recent private letter rulings issued by the Internal Revenue Service1 have created concern among estate-planning attorneys regarding the best way to draft trusts that are intended as potential receptacles of IRA or other qualified plan benefits...
Will the regulatory push for a uniform fiduciary standard die on the vine? Brokers may not be best equipped to predict regulatory outcomes, but most of them do not expect such a standard to be implemented, according to survey results released...
Family teams are common in the wealth management industry and getting more so. Hiring family members can be an easy solution to finding a trustworthy partner and a successor. But there are drawbacks.
How will new financial regulations wending their way through Congress affect individual retail financial advisors and broker/dealers, independent or otherwise?
