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If you work for one of the major wirehouses, you're in pain. If you're a commission-based rep, business is slow. And if you are a fee-based rep, your fees are dropping along with the value of client accounts. And if you are in a deferred...
Wilkes Thomas Martin III joined Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. as a financial advisor and senior vice president in the firm's Greenville office. Prior to joining Morgan Keegan, Martin was a corporate client group director and senior investment...
Competing fiercely for the attention of investors, fund companies have brought out a wave of specialized offerings. Many of the choices which include mutual funds and exchange-trade funds focus on hot-sounding industries, or growing areas of the...
Consider the Curious and Rather Grotesque Case of Gary J. Gross, a financial advisor from (where else?) Boca Raton, Fla. Gross' U4 is close to 100 pages long, and lists 35 customer complaints (33 of them settled) amassed at several firms over the...
Bear Stearns near-collapse and sellout to J.P. Morgan was just one more act in the ugly market drama unfolding on Wall Street: Big brand-name firms, thought to be failsafe, are reeling from the sub-prime crisis and its fallout. The economy and the...
CHICAGO, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- America's millionaires are feeling the pinch. The number of U.S. households with a net worth of $1 million or more, not including primary residence (NIPR), grew just 2% in 2007 to 9.2 million, up from 9 million...
