John Thiel, who rose from the trenches at Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor in Tampa, Fla. to head the firm’s private banking group, will soon lead some 15,000 advisors in Merrill’s U.S. brokerage unit as well, his boss Sallie...
UBS Wealth Management Americas (NYSE: UBS), rising from the ashes of its well-publicized disasters, had something to crow about this latest quarter (Q1 2011): The firm gathered $8.4 billion in net new client assets (figure includes interest and...
How much is college going to cost your clients with teenagers? Unfortunately, most of the time the cost is shrouded in mystery...
Florida becomes one of the few states to allow families to challenge deathbed marriages
When you design a portfolio by market capitalization and investment style, do you consider the cash value and death benefits of your client’s life insurance policy in the mix? Some experts say you should. Why? The death benefits and steady...
Wealth managers don’t have to be experts when it comes to philanthropy, but they do need to be empathetic and knowledgeable about charitable giving, according to industry leaders who will be addressing the annual conference of the...
