Independent b/ds, with razor-thin operating margins, need to grow to remain profitable. Yet they must also maintain that small company feel. NEXT Financial Group walks the razor’s edge.
Registered Rep.spoke with Jim Weddle, CEO of Edward Jones, about the firm's new fee-based platform, which it began to roll out in June. RR: What inspired the development of this program? JW: Well, we did a lot of research both among our clients...
Scott Burns has spent decades trying to figure out how people can retire comfortably and yet sacrifice as little as possible pre-retirement. Which is ironic since Burns, at the age of 67, appears to have no interest in filling his Golden Years...
Two years ago, Morgan Stanley had an image problem. Financial advisors were so down on the firm then plagued by executive infighting, badly in need of investment in retail brokerage and bleeding advisors you couldn't have paid a broker 500 percent...
JPMorgan Chase's cafeteria burgers may survive the current market, but the investment banking division can expect more job cuts, CEO Jamie Dimon said at a recent town hall meeting between top executives and employees, according to a CNBC report...