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Retirement scares people, says Roger Smith, a registered rep, CFP and co-owner of Planned Solutions, an RIA firm in Sacramento, Calif. I don't want to exaggerate, but these people are as close to petrified as you can get, says Smith, a 21-year...
The affluent are searching for unbiased, multidimensional solutions for protecting, growing and distributing their wealth. Therefore, wealth management has become the latest catch phrase in the financial services industry to describe a business...
Bloomberg reports that Merrill Lynch has fired a broker over a letter the rep sent to clients advising them to yank funds managed by Credit Suisse Asset Management. The broker was reportedly critical of Swiss banking practices in the wake of the...
Online brokerage firm TD Waterhouse has formed an alliance with Ford Motor Company to offer online financial services to Ford’s 146,000 employees in the United States, the brokerage announced last week. Waterhouse set up a special Web site...
Merrill Lynch reported this morning that its individually managed account business survived the events of Sept. 11 well, without lots of clients bailing out. Redemption rates were about three-quarters of one percent through the end of September...