The prolonged economic crisis, weak equity markets and rock-bottom fixed-income returns should cause all who advise individuals on investing to reconsider the assumptions on which much of their advice is based.
New York Life Insurance Co. was the top seller of fixed annuities during the second quarter, with $1.74 billion in sales, according to Beacon Re-search Publications Inc.
For the forseeable future there will be no easy way to build a retirement nest egg, meaning investment advisers and their clients will have to work harder and use a wider range of tools to accomplish the task.
Congressional attempts to eradicate conflicts of interest from the Wall Street credit agencies' business model are headed in the right direction, to the benefit of all investors.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has lost a $3 million producing team of veteran Smith Barney brokers to rival J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.
The Charles Schwab Corp. and Charles Goldman have agreed to meet with a private mediator next month to discuss the former executive vice president's demand for $736,000 in severance pay following his dismissal in 2008 as head of the firm's RIA business.
The reality of a sluggish, deflationary economy is sinking in among advisers.
Josh Kernan, who oversees sales of alternative investments to investment advisers and their clients at Charles Schwab Corp., is leaving the company after 16 years to start a new firm.
It was another tough year to be a financial adviser — or at least that seems to be one of the conclusions of The Charles Schwab Corp.'s RIA benchmarking study.
Schwab survey also uncovers drop in margins, slowdown in number of new clients
Judging by the results of <i>InvestmentNews</i>' 2010 Industry Attitudes survey, the financial crisis and market crash seem to have changed the behavior of financial advisers and clients for the better
Wealthy pocket savings, research finds; stock market biggest factor in affluent's spending habits
Citi Private Bank, the private-banking unit of Citigroup Inc., continues its aggressive recruiting from U.S. Trust and has now lured a total of 10 bankers from the Bank of America unit since the end of April.
U.S. Trust Corp., the private banking unit of Bank of America Corp., has hired five senior-level wealth management experts as part of the firm's bid to hire more than 200 advisers and bankers this year.
A Kirkland financial planner who looted her clients' investment accounts was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison by a federal judge who praised her for cooperating after she got caught.
Fear of market gyrations taking hold among affluent young investors; is the 'conservatism' embedded?
Advisers are alarmed that a new online reporting system that discloses their disciplinary records includes customer complaints that have not been substantiated.
Charles G. Goldman, who lost his position as head of Charles Schwab & Co.'s industry-leading business for independent investment advisers 18 months ago, has sued the company in federal court for more than $736,000 in severance pay and related benefits.
