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In its effort to raise capital and shed some of its non-core business units, Bank of America is selling First Republic Bank just two years after Merrill Lynch purchased the San Francisco-based private banking and wealth-management firm.
Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings today, the firm’s third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year. On a good note, Schwab continues to gather new registered investment advisor firms and assets...
Robert J. McCann, the former Merrill Lynch & Co. brokerage chief is free to take the reins at a major Merrill rival—even if it be the U.S. wealth management unit of UBS that has been rumored for months—after he settled a lawsuit today...
Imagine you are the beneficiary of a trust established by your great-grandfather more than 70 years ago. You've been receiving an annual income of $400,000 from the trust for 20 years and your whole family's lifestyle has come to depend upon it...
In the recent case of Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings and Investment Plan et al.,1 the U.S. Supreme Court again confirmed its longstanding policy that qualified retirement plans (QRPs) must be administered in accordance with the...
It's well known that a traditional IRA is a great way to save. Assets in an IRA can grow tax-deferred for decades. But tricky planning issues arise when a married couple has combined assets in excess of the estate tax exemption (currently, $3.5...