The Risk Group will be responsible for identifying, tracking and addressing key external market and industry trading developments.
Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has drafted a bill that would slash corporate income tax rates, The Wall Street Journal said.
Ladenburg Thalmann has acquired Investacorp, a B-D with close to 500 affiliated reps.
The American Council of Life Insurers today elected Dennis R. Glass, president and CEO of Lincoln Financial Group, as its 2008 chairman.
National Planning Holdings Inc. has begun a program to hire and manage an in-house licensed and trained assistant.
BS AG remained the world’s largest money manager in terms of assets under management, with $2.45 trillion, to lead the Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt Worldwide ranking of the world’s 500 largest money managers in 2006.
Two new tax efficiency tools are available to help advisers in portfolio management, specifically with the complex decision making as-sociated with their clients' stock holdings.
With no permanent repeal of the estate tax in sight, advisers are appeasing worried clients by putting new twists on old estate-planning tools.
Dwindling assets and intense regulatory scrutiny continue to take their toll on mutual fund B shares, which at the current rate of attrition are likely to become nearly extinct inside five years.
It is difficult to evaluate funds and strategies that haven't yet established a track record, but the <b>Aston/Neptune International Fund (ANIIX) </b>comes to market with a certain pedigree and a legitimate strategy for investing outside the United States.
