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UBS Wealth Management Americas (NYSE: UBS), rising from the ashes of its well-publicized disasters, had something to crow about this latest quarter (Q1 2011): The firm gathered $8.4 billion in net new client assets (figure includes interest and...
Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) said its first quarter net income was at $241 million, a 13 percent boost from $214 million a year ago. Meanwhile, the firm reported its best quarterly advisor productivity ever at $95,000, up 23 percent from 2010...
LPL Financial reported net income of $49 million, or 43 cents a share for the first quarter of 2011, a 92 percent jump from the first quarter of 2010. Revenues grew 17.5 percent from the year ago quarter to $873.9 million. Nearly 70 percent of...
Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) plans to sell its independent broker/dealer unit Securities America, according to the company’s first quarter earnings report released today. Meanwhile, the firm is still in the process of finalizing a...
Americans are getting fatter and older by the minute. While that’s not happy news for us individually, it certainly represents an opportunity for healthcare real estate investment trusts...
Commodities are big news nowadays. Not that that’s anything new. After all, the market breakdown of 2008 was preceded by huge run-ups in oil, precious metals and foodstuff futures. Speculation—fostered by a proliferation of exchange...
In a disappointing quarter for Morgan Stanley, the firm’s global wealth management group was, once again, a bright spot, with revenue, earnings and client assets up, though advisor headcount and pre-tax profit margins were down. Morgan’...
