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This week, Stifel Nicolaus announced it was buying 55 UBS wealth management branches spread across 24 states, which include $15 billion in assets under management, 320 reps and over $100 million in revenue. The St. Louis regional b/d will make an...
Wealth Transfer Planning (InterActive Legal Systems), by Jonathan G. Blattmachr and Michael L. Graham, is a sophisticated automated drafting system for estate-planning documents
The Table of contents for the March 2009 issue of Trusts & Estates Magazine
Most estate-planning attorneys come across clients who want to attach some sort of condition on gifts they make to descendants and other beneficiaries. And most estate-planning lawyers know that conditions creating restraints against marriage...
Do you sell insurance to clients? Then listen up. A new rule governing who can sell indexed annuities, and increased scrutiny of senior designations, could have an important impact on how you do business with clients.
The current financial regulatory apparatus, all agree (at last), is outdated, having been cobbled together over the decades, beginning after the Great Crash of 1929. Setting aside whether a Glass-Steagall-type law might be resurrected in the wake...