Rising medical costs and longer live expectencies are putting the squeeze on long-term-care insurance providers. This week, another carrier -- Guardian Life -- said it's exiting the LTC biz.
MTB's Schultz likes energy stocks, not so hot on consumer staple sector
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. reported increased first-quarter revenue and profits, driven by higher assets and trading activity
When seemingly every broker-dealer wants to increase its reps — at a time when the total population of financial advisers is in the process of shrinking — is it possible for anyone to actually win the so-called recruiting wars?
Financial advisers play an increasingly important role in helping wealthy clients get the most bang for their philanthropic bucks
The appointment last week of John Thiel as head of U.S. wealth management for Bank of America Merrill Lynch ends one chapter — and opens another — in the ever-changing management saga at the nation's second-largest wirehouse
A federal judge has found vocal Finra critic Richard Goble guilty of SEC charges filed against him nearly three years ago
After struggling during the darkest days of the credit crisis, SagePoint Financial Inc., which is owned by American International Group Inc., is back to playing offense, today closing a purchase of the assets of Spectrum Capital Inc.
Close to half of advisers who recommend closed end mutual funds to their clients admit that research on most of the funds is 'inadequate.' This is not exactly a confidence-builder.
Rich folks, worried that the specter of a large bequeath could kill a child's drive to succeed, are increasingly keeping mum about their estates
The firm was put under receivership in May after the SEC brought charges against the firm and its owner, Richard Goble.
A judge in Georgia decided this week that J.P. Turner & Co. was not required to perform due diligence on stock from now-bankrupt Provident Royalties. A big deal? It is if the ruling boosts other B-Ds being sued for Reg D offerings that went south.
Barclays Plc, which bought Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s North American business, will get $1.1 billion in trading assets from the trustee liquidating the remnants of Lehman's brokerage, the trustee's lawyer said.
Still, June expiration has many worried; institutions to the rescue?
'The Power of the Right Advisor' set to launch this week
A recent mortgage-backed securities sale and reverse repos have gone unnoticed by investors fixated on Fed funds rate.
United Capital Financial Advisers today announced the acquisition of financial planning firm Vantage Point Advisors. Vantage Point, which manages $170 million in assets, will now operate under the name of United Capital Private Wealth Counseling.
U.S. life carriers had a fairly small appetite for mergers and acquisitions in 2010, with much of the activity taking place in AIG's shedding of its foreign life insurance subsidiaries.
The Investment Management Consultants Association is zeroing in on independent advisers as it attempts to attract new members to certain designations.
