The parent company of Southwest Securities, SWS Group, received $7-a-share offer from Hilltop Holdings. The offer was a 16% premium to the stock's closing price on Thursday. Bruce Kelly has the story.
Hilltop Holdings ups previous offer for SWS Group by 12.6%.
CEO says best execution is first order of business; competition for RIA customers remains strong.
Beacon finds 'client onboarding' has replaced social-media archiving as brokers' biggest technology challenge.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Where investors go when BRICs crack. Plus: How advisers can &mdash; and should &mdash; deal with male and female clients, mounting sanctions drive Russia toward China for economic help, investor class-action lawsuits spike, and saving money on travel.
Niche is attracting more advisers looking to add to their service offerings.
Fastest-growing units are turning toward fee-based investment and planning advice.
Stanford professors offer tips on replicating excellence in business
Focus has been actively looking to facilitate breakaway deals by helping wirehouse teams form their own firms or join existing Focus partners.
Donald Carman and Michael Hickey move to Atlas Private Wealth Management, dissolve previous firm.
After doing 10 deals in 2013, Adolf expects 2014 to be 'a very good year'
Seattle-based McAdams Wright Ragen has more than $10 billion in client assets.
Investment advisers are flocking to the asset management and technology company and it's become a market darling. The stock is up 178% over the last year.
Many will not have saved enough to see them through retirement.
Renowned trading firm strikes a deal to acquire a bank-owned RIA with more than $2 billion in assets. And it's not finished. Here's what Cantor is looking for.
Many independent RIAs would be able to serve clients better if they combined their resources with like-minded advisers.
The trailblazer says the advisory business is still coming up short in reaching out to women, both as advisers and clients, and explains why.
Just like in every industry, there is a natural evolution of growth, maturity and then a disruption or tipping point, often caused by technology, that transforms it to take on a different shape and direction.
“The times they are a'changing.” So said Bob Dylan in 1964. I am fairly certain he wasn't talking about the financial services industry, but now 50 years later, his message most definitely applies to our world.
Meanwhile, Ways and Means to send tax extensions bill to full Senate on Thursday.
