When LPL Financial, a self-clearing independent broker/dealer, rolled Pacific Life's broker/dealers onto its self-clearing platform in 2009, many advisors protested. But for Jennifer Tanck, president of Independent Financial Partners, an LPL...
Independent broker-dealer WFP Securities went out of business fighting claims they put clients into risky private placements and non-traded REITS. Yesterday, they got a bit back.
Five years after blowing up his firm in the mortgage crisis, Stanley Brooks was ordered to pay the maximum penalty of $10 million for fraud charges by a federal judge in Los Angeles.
While retail investors are exiting equity mutual funds like no other, dividend-focused mutual funds are actually reaping the benefits of investors’ search for yield.
You can’t very well tell the IRS that their check is in the mail. But a new iPad application by Fidelity Investments allows investors to make deposits into Fidelity IRAs via the Apple tablet. Taxpayers can use the iPad camera to photograph...
In this excerpt from his book Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments, Joshua Brown comes clean about some of the more dangerous investment products Wall Street...
RIA custodians like Schwab and TD Ameritrade may be stealing business away from the IBDs. According to a report by Cerulli Associates, 76 percent of dually-registered advisors' assets were held as fee assets under their own RIA in 2011, up from 72...
