B-Ds to Finra: Back off back-office registration
Broker-dealers, get ready. Your back-office operations are now officially on Finra's front burner
SRO oversight could be ‘rude awakening’ for some advisers: Consultant
Scrutiny of client communication, use of social media could catch some investment advisers unaware
A portfolio that purrs
Animal lovers now have their own socially screened stock portfolio to cuddle up with — without the fear of fur balls, ticks or fleas
TD adding 90 new RIA firms each quarter: Tomczyk
Revenues up, net new assets up, custody business up. It's hard to find much that went wrong for the discount brokerage in the first quarter of the year.
Finra: Make broker-dealers disclose ‘shelf space’
Finra wants broker-dealers to disclose the revenue-sharing deals they have with mutual funds
Finra shells out big lobbying $$
Finra hiked its lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of this year
Prescient advisers called gold and silver plunge
Amid the agony and angst felt by those who took a beating in last week's commodities meltdown, some financial advisers are patting themselves on the back for having steered over-enthusiastic clients away from gold and silver
Credit Suisse analyst: No more QE2? No problem
The end of QE2 should be a non-event, according to a Credit Suisse AG analyst
Active management the new buy-and-hold?
With two huge bear markets in recent memory — and buy-and-hold tactics open to question — the popularity of active strategies has never been greater
Some advisers warned clients about chasing commodities
Some advisers warned their clients about chasing commodities. But even with Thursday's meltdown -- and the mercurial nature of precious metal prices -- some are telling their clients to stay the course.