Independent advisor firms with annual revenues of $1 million or more
devote more time to attracting and keeping employees, according to a
new study...
Fee-only advisors are taking a more active role in endorsing annuities that charge a flat-fee...
A former Ameritrade executive has been named chief
operating officer of The MuniCenter L.L.C., a fixed-income trading
system founded six years ago...
Eaton Vance is offering a tax-managed account designed for investors
whose qualified retirement plans have hit their contribution limits...
Fee-only advisors are taking a more active role in endorsing annuities that charge a flat-fee...
Schwab Performance Technologies recently announced the release of a new, enhanced version of PortfolioCenter, the portfolio management system that has more than 3,000 users...
The CFP Board of Standards has renamed its key
governing bodies and named new members to the board of governors...
National Financial has integrated service
resolution, tracking and reporting into its Streetscape workstation...
The Internal Revenue Service has announced increased
deductibility levels for long-term care insurance polices purchased in
2007...
Pershing Advisor Solutions LLC, a unit of The Bank
of New York, has launched an account management solution for
the clients of independent RIAs...
During a ceremony today at the Schwab Impact 2006 Conference in Washington, D.C...
Morningstar is offering investors a tool that allows them to get a
truer picture of their personal stock and fund investment returns...
Nationwide Financial Services feels it has a possible answer for a vexing question: Am I ready to retire?
The company is
offering at its Web site, at...
Trust Company of America, a firm that provides custody,
trading, and back office services to fee-based and fee-only financial
advisors through their proprietary technology...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering increasing the threshold that determines whether a Registered Investment Advisor is regulated by the SEC or state securities...
A 15-year Fidelity veteran will take over as head of the company's RIA group...
Progressive Asset Management is launching a group of investments that's
designed to bring benchmark indexes into the area of socially
responsible investing...
BlackRock Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of Merrill
Lynch Investment Managers, creating a unit with more than $1 trillion
in assets under management...
Nearly a year into the federal government's overhaul of the nation's
bankruptcy laws, attorneys say the changes have done more harm than
good...
Sarah Ball Teslik has resigned as CEO of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards to assume a policy position in the private sector, the board announced...
