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The Financial Services Institute, a trade group for small independent b/ds, attacked current government proposals to make the fiduciary standard of care a universal one for all financial advisors—not just RIA investment advisors, but b/d...
Citigroup on Monday announced that it would convert its small North American bank brokerage business completely to a fee-on-assets-based fiduciary advice system, and would stop collecting commissions on stock and fund sales. Citi says it will also...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued an 80 page report on Friday that includes a review of its failings in the Madoff and Stanford scandals. A release about the report reads as follows:
The athletic brand Puma is sweetening up dour markets with a new ad campaign featuring The Puma Index, a tracker of the American Dow, Germany's Dax, and Australia's S&P/ASX 200. The application for Mac iPhones features female and male models who...
When an advisor leaves a wirehouse before his term on his forgivable loan is up, the firm often demands he pay back the balance at once. Mark Thierman is behind a new class action lawsuit that could change that.
Mark Thierman is at it again. We always thought he was a clever labor lawyer when we first spoke to him back in the spring of 2006, when we got word that he had dusted off some old Depression-era law to force brokerages to pay their reps overtime...
Joseph Grano, Vietnam War Veteran, former Green Beret Special Forces officer and former CEO of UBS PaineWebber, is the consummate optimist. When his doctors told him that the injuries he sustained in Vietnam meant he would need braces on both legs...
The global financial crisis has changed the game for wealth managers, as clients battered by bad news shifted their assets to less volatile, low-margin investments, weakening performance, and cutting into asset-based fees, according to a report by...