Treasury boss Timothy Geithner say the department is considering overhauling the current tax set-up. On the radar: reclassifying the status of pass-through businesses — including LLPs and S corps. Yikes.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is said to have begun a sweep of registered investment advisers' use of social media and social networking, according to officials at an industry compliance firm.
The SEC and Finra are taking a closer look at how financial advisers use social networking
Loscalso claims he was axed for warning firm about lax oversight of brokers; 'fraud, forgery'
The mere mention of advisory practice work flow — or even thinking about how the work gets done (or doesn't) in an advisory business — is enough to cause many advisers' eyes to glaze over
With two of the most severe bear markets of this century fresh in their short-term memories, affluent investors — particularly the youngest investors — appear to be quite skittish about investing in anything but the safest of asset classes.
A new health insurance tax credit could hit some small financial advisory firms in their sweet spot — but only if they fit a specific profile
There has not been a lot of news coming out of this year's Technology Tools for Today conference (it is being held in Weston, Florida this year).
Among the largest independent broker-dealers, Commonwealth Financial Network has the highest concentration of financial advisers who produce more than $500,000 annually, according to InvestmentNews <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/section/broker-dealer-data>data. And it's reached the top by getting people out the door: Namely, its advisers.
Brokerage firm Edward Jones this week announced that it plans to add up to 20 branch offices to the more than 60 it has in the state of Utah.
Mobile application sure to attract attention from users of Apple's ubiquitous smartphone
College planning is one area where financial advisers can really stand out from the crowd
Industry observers are worried that a new Finra reporting rule — set to go into effect July 1 — could open up brokerage firms to enforcement actions.
Most business came to a halt throughout the Midwest two weeks ago when a massive blizzard forced workers to take a snow day, but financial advisers said they were good to go
Many wirehouse representatives toy with the idea of going independent, but for many of them, there are several good reasons to stay put
Zephyr Associates Inc., probably best known to financial advisers for its StyleAdvisor and AllocationAdvisor products, is now providing a free peek at separately managed accounts performance analytics
Providing scalable high-tech, high-touch financial advice to the mass affluent has been a goal of adviser entrepreneurs since the days of MS-DOS. While the technology and knowledge certainly exist to make it happen, doing so successfully and profitably thus far has been elusive.
