Retirement advisory boards can be invaluable to your business, but the fastest way to make them fail is to make them all about you.
If you ever wondered what would make your independent brokerage or financial planning business attractive to a buyer, ask me.
<b>The challenge:</b> While there are countless ways a retirement advisory board can be of value to your practice, it’s difficult to sustain the board’s excitement and energy after the first meeting.
Warning to larcenous advisers: Don't try anything in Massachusetts.
Fidelity Investments today unveiled a program to help registered investments advisers hire, develop and retain employees.
Scandals in the financial markets over the past several years are the result of enforcement failures and a lack of regulators with industry-specific knowledge, not a need for increased regulation.
Raymond James expects a record recruiting year, as reps and advisers flee struggling wirehouses to join the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based company.
In the most direct evidence yet tying UBS Chairman Peter Kurer to oversight failures at the Swiss bank, the U.S. Justice Department last month criticized as inadequate an internal investigation that he supervised.
The Internal Revenue Service should immediately issue guidance that would allow customers defrauded by New York-based Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC.
Scott Eyre, a left-handed relief pitcher with the reigning World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies, has joined the roster of major-league players ensnared by the Stanford Financial scandal.
Trustees handling Bernard L. Madoff Securities is in the process of selling the market making operation connected with the firm, trustee Irving Picard said today .
A trustee of a charitable foundation that helps poor people in Central America and Mexico has filed a civil case against Texas billionaire financier R. Allen Stanford.
The U.S. sued UBS AG today in an effort to get the Swiss bank to turn over the names of as many as 52,000 wealthy Americans who allegedly tried to evade taxes.
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin filed a complaint today to revoke the securities registration of Cohmad Securities Corp.
When it comes to regulatory oversight of the hedge funds industry, it is no longer a question of if it will happen but when, according to industry representatives speaking today at a conference in Key Biscayne, Fla.
Three former brokers, who were first with UBS Financial Services Inc. and then with Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., have been barred from working in New Jersey.
In this final week of a four-week program to get your business off to a solid start by focusing on retirement rollovers, let’s discuss effective retirement rollover seminars and how to do them on a limited budget.
Start by identifying your top five retirement services. These may include IRAs, Keogh plans, long term care insurance, retirement income reviews, referrals to estate planning attorneys, annuities and others.
It’s not easy to call and meet clients in light of the markets and the negative press from the Madoff scandal. But with clients receiving their December statements, this is no time to hide.
