Merrill Lynch has apparently decided it’s had enough of Hydie Sumner, a former broker who sued the firm successfully in 2004 for sexual discrimination.
The registered investment advisory business had a knockout year in 2005, according to the recently released seventh-annual Rydex AdvisorsBenchmarking Survey.
Our studies of wealth-management teams have provided clear empirical evidence that job satisfaction is directly tied to the team's effort to improve performance as the team progresses through stages of development.
Pension Protection Act of 2006, which President Bush signed into law yesterday, allows Series 7-holders to provide advice to 401(k) plan participants and directs the Secretary of Labor to issue a class exemption for advice provided to IRA holders.
The Pension Protection Act (PPA) that Congress passed at the start of the month—and which President Bush is expected to sign into law on Thursday—deals largely with the nation’s ailing pension system. But it also includes a...
Branch managers say they sometimes get the feeling they are wearing bull’s-eyes on their backs. Perhaps they are. And it’s not just because as a branch office’s supervisor they are often held accountable for anything that goes...
In an effort to speed up the arbitration process, NYSE Regulation proposed Wednesday that a single public arbitrator decide cases in which compensatory and punitive damages claimed are under $200,000.
Brooke Astor, the famous New York City socialite and philanthropist, reportedly suffers from Alzheimer’s and no longer can comprehend anything of a financial nature, according to news reports.