National Retirement Partners, a network of independent retirement plan-focused advisors, today announced plans to buy three advisory firms as part of its latest expansion efforts...
Fidelity Registered Investment Advisor Group today announced that it's changing its name to Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services, a move the company says reflects the growing role that trust...
Barclays Global Investors was in its own little universe after its
iShares S&P National Municipal Bond Fund (MUB) began trading Monday
on the American Stock Exchange as...
Focus Financial Partners, LLC, a holding company of independent wealth
management firms, has recently hired former Charles Schwab
Institutional executive Richard Gill to...
National Financial, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, today said that it added two new components to its Managed Account Solutions program that are designed to help broker/dealers grab a bigger...
Emerging Information Systems, Inc. (EISI), a leading developer of
professional financial planning software, today announced an improved
version of its NaviPlan Standard...
The AIG Advisor Group Inc. this week announced organizational changes to the nation's largest independent broker-dealer network...
Fidelity Investments has launched a new Internet web-based planning tool designed specifically to help advisors manage retirement accounts for the thousands of baby boomers facing...
Van Eck Global this week launched an exchange-traded fund aimed at reaping profits from the boom in agricultural prices...
Pershing Advisor Solutions LLC today announced it hired Mark Tibergien as its new chief executive officer...
Fiduciary Network (FN), the holding company created by Mark Hurley and financed by New York investor Howard Milstein, has purchased a minority interest in Brightworth, an...
Laserfiche, a leading provider of digital document management systems to financial advisors, announced today the release of Intuition, a new desktop software application designed to specifically...
Pre-retirees significantly underestimate the length of their retirement years and how long their savings will need to last, according to a report released Wednesday by the Fidelity Research...
There are two ways to interpret the recent survey of financial advisors done by Schwab Institutional: They're optimistic about economy, or they're not as optimistic...
Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) raised their fees for assets
under management fractionally to 1.00% in 2006 from 0...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the regulatory organization overseeing broker/dealers, recently initiated a "sweep" examination of broker/dealer practices...
Western Alliance Bancorp, a fast-growing Nevada-based financial services firm, has acquired Shine Investment Advisory of Englewood, Colo...
Independent broker/dealer National Planning Holdings (NPH) has teamed up with FP Transitions to provide succession plannning and practice acquisition services for its...
The
number of registered independent advisors will grow dramatically in the
next five years and competition in the industry will substantially
increase, requiring new...
The Securities and Exchange Commission will hold its second annual Seniors Summit on Sept. 10 at the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters...
