Finra is considering raising the fees related to pursuing an arbitration claim against a brokerage firm in order to increase the pay for people who hear the cases.
Roger W. Rodas was in actor Paul Walker's car; firm “deeply saddened” by loss.
Bill Schwartz, an independent adviser who broke away from Merrill Lynch, says he understands why advisers stayed at wirehouses five or 10 years ago. But today, the game has changed.
New research into the complexities of Americans' financial lives is driving Merrill Lynch Wealth Management to change the way its advisers work with clients.
Three of the four wirehouses have announced tweaks to their adviser pay packages and incentives, with their sights set on courting the wealthiest clients.
Wirehouses largely back recruiting incentive regulation but IBDs oppose it.
In a bad omen for the mutual fund industry, the shift toward fee-based compensation is expected to accelerate over the next two years, a new report finds. Who's pushing the trend?
Deal is on top of $62.5 million the bank contributed to settlement fund.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: T. Rowe Price warns of correction, Deutsche Bank bans chat rooms, the first-ever hedge fund ad debuts, big banks sweating over the looming Volcker rule, and EU Commission levies heavy fine for rate rigging.
The world's biggest wealth manager, is targeting millionaire clients in oil-rich Nigeria and Angola as Swiss rival Credit Suisse Group AG withdraws from some African markets.
Step by step, former wirehouse advisers can build a new brand and enjoy new freedom.
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the U.S. bank most reliant on trading, won't make any “wholesale strategic change” to help improve returns, chief executive Lloyd C. Blankfein said.
Massachusetts securities' regulators fine the brokerage giant $500,000 for failing to stop a rep from defrauding clients.
What's <i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff Benjamin reading this morning? Whether your clients need long-term care insurance, hedge funds loading up on GM stock, Greenspan calls Bitcoin a bubble, JPMorgan confirms cardholders were hacked and Britain gets bullish. Breakfast with Benjamin is served.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: The regulator tells the mutual fund industry to stop promising safety and protection. Plus, the QE government bonanza, JPMorgan's Twitter beatdown, SAC Capital trial could go inside the hedge fund.
Firm's crop of recent hires for its wealth management unit have managed more than $5.2 billion.
Goldman Sachs, along with the investment-banking divisions of six of its biggest U.S. and European rivals, allocated a collective 39% of revenue for compensation in the first nine months, down from 42% a year earlier and the 50% some firms earmarked before the financial crisis. Goldman Sachs's 41% ratio so far this year is its lowest nine-month figure as a public company.
Cerulli study forecasts a drop of more than 25,000 advisers by 2017, most from wirehouses and broker-dealers. The problem? A lack of new recruits.
