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Now may be the time to get your clients more life insurance: In 2008, life-insurance premiums will be 11 percent lower than they were two years ago and half of what they were a decade ago, according to the Insurance Information Institute...
Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack opened the Morgan Stanley earnings call today by saying the firm’s quarterly results were “embarrassing.” Quite. But, he quickly pointed out that—excluding mortgage-related businesses
Depending on whom you talk to, it may have just become a little bit harder for registered reps to erase disputes from the Central Registration Depository (“CRD”) records system. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority proposed a...
According to a recently published study, Americans worth $10 million or more will spend 67 percent more this year on gifts, including jewelry, fashion and travel
You may have heard by now that there is a talent-squeeze in the wealth-management business. In fact, one quarter of recruitment openings for wealth managers could not be filled during the past year
It was a less than ideal situation. When Jeffrey Keefe left his job as a financial advisor with Ameriprise to start his own Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based firm two years ago, he decided he'd just stay put in the office he shared with several...
Wall Street's titans made a terrible mess with their bets on the sub-prime mortgage market, and now they're paying for it dearly. Most of the major U.S. banks and brokerage firms recorded massive write-downs of sub-prime and CDO (collateralized...