The tenant-in-common industry is in the throes of an identity crisis that is forcing investors to choose sides on a complex — and often contentious — issue. Is TIC ownership real estate, or is it a security...
Although the co-ownership structure associated with tenant-in common properties remains in high demand, the industry is discovering that it is not immune to mounting pressures from the frenzied commercial real estate sales market. The end result...
Back in the day, being an institutional consultant was cool. Retail advisor? Ha, that was crawling on your belly. Well, today, the institutional pension plan is essentially dead (or, put another way, no business is going to go out and create a new...
Michael Mendelsohn, author of Life is Short, Art is Long, says in the early pages of his book that he never expected to find out that he had anything in common with William Randolph Hearst, Imelda Marcos or Queen Elizabeth II. But what he shares...
RBC Dain Rauscher is in acquisition mode. The Midwest regional is set to purchase New Jersey-based J.B. Hanauer, an employee-owned firm with $10 billion in assets under management.
Financial planners who hold the Certified Financial Planning designation have been tussling with the CFP Board, which controls the CFP designation, over the designation’s ethical standards. Well, it looks like the tussling will continue.
It’s not exactly on the scale of the Hundred Years War (which actually lasted 116 years), but legal battles of Hydie Sumner, the former broker who won $2.2 million from Merrill Lynch in a discrimination lawsuit, just don’t seem to end.
LPL’s acquisition last week of three Pacific Life Insurance Company broker/dealers was just one more step in its quest to for a successful sale of the company or initial public offering.
If you are a producing supervisor and work alone in a remote office, the NASD is sending you (and management) a special message: Exception reports alone may not be enough supervision. On Feb. 21, the NASD announced it had fined Raymond James...
