Advisers should be ready for Bitcoin to increasingly become a part of their conversations with investors. Fintech companies are already reducing the barriers to participation.
The Certified Financial Planner Board established a 15-member commission to review and recommend changes to its sanction guidelines for current mark holders as well as its fitness standards for candidates for certification.
To help your clients make sound long-term decisions they can live and thrive with, work with them to think through options that will harmonize their financial and emotional lives.
Michael Topinka, Carl Boomhower and Daniel Tyburski set up shop in Wayne, New Jersey, as Topinka Financial.
The free-trading app faces renewed accusations that its platform is manipulative amid a decision to halt certain trades just a month after Massachusetts regulators accused it of ‘gamification.’
The real fun is just getting started, now that everybody and their mother knows what a short squeeze is.
While users of the trading platforms claim in court filings that they suffered losses from the restrictions, legal experts say brokerages have broad powers to block or restrict transactions — all of which is spelled out as part of customer agreements everyone signs to gain access to the services.
Trading platforms issued restrictions on GameStop, AMC and other shorted stocks that surged to unprecedented highs this week. Lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, expressed deep concern.
COVID-19 and increased competition slowed down recruiting in 2020, according to CEO Paul Reilly. Now, the firm is beefing up compensation to advisers who are employees.
The market frenzy was spurred by social media posts from prominent CEOs and internet influencers. The tweets and threads created internet mayhem and ultimately pushed the video game retail business to a $24 billion market cap.
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The brokers with outages or problems include the most prominent names in the discount and online brokerage industry, including Fidelity, the Charles Schwab Corp., TD Ameritrade, ETrade Financial Corp. and Robinhood.
A social media platform and ready access to mobile trading apps have helped push an otherwise obscure, money-losing videogame retail business to a $21 billion market cap.
Since the GameStop stock options frenzy that quietly began early this month and exploded over the past week, some traders have followed by investing in other shorted stocks, with prices surging far past the returns seen in the indexes that include them.
Fidelity's new technology is designed to help advisers create ESG model portfolios and engage clients with impact investing.
Brendan Biruk and Dan Rattigan form Washington Crossing Financial Group in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.
Some companies are prepping for in-person events slated for the second half of 2021. The industry is hoping to meet face-to-face again as COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed across the country.
Marc Rowan, one of Black’s top lieutenants, will succeed him as CEO as part of a governance overhaul that will also eliminate weighted voting rights.
There is an art to prospecting, and a formula that helps close prospects in the first meeting.
Ever since Bitcoin rallied to all-time highs this month, the big question advisers are asking themselves is when will it be suitable to use the cryptocurrency in client portfolios.
