Broker Dealers
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Carbon Commerce
By Kara P. StapletonCarbon emissions trading, whereby companies and individuals can buy and sell carbon credits with broker/dealers facilitating the transaction, is growing, according to a recent TowerGroup...
May 01, 2008
Donohue on the Rand Report & PaulsonThe SEC has a number of initiatives on its plate this year that could make advisors' lives easier, or not. For instance, advisor regulation will...
May 01, 2008
NEWS & PRODUCTS, MAY 2008UBS Global Asset Management announced that its U.S. Pension Fund Fitness Tracker, a quarterly estimate of the overall health of a typical U.S. defined benefit...
May 01, 2008
A Personal RetrospectiveSix months after Research celebrates its 30th anniversary this summer, I'll be celebrating my 30th anniversary of working in the financial services industry. While many...
May 01, 2008
Clifford JackDavid Macchia: Over time, the executive leadership in insurance has increasingly been comprised of individuals who have no sales background. I've always believed that experience...
April 27, 2008
Voluntary Benefits Break The Final FrontierThe latest entrants into the voluntary benefits marketplace are group medical insurance companies and group health brokers. Both have long resisted entering this market space. ...
April 15, 2008
Sales and Suitability -- Dateline NBCI'm sure most of you saw Dateline NBC last Sunday. After talking with carriers, wholesalers and advisors, what struck me the most about "Tricks of the Trade" was not the piece itself, but the industry's reaction. No one panicked. No one reacted
April 13, 2008
Steps taken to protect seniorsSenior Advisors know that it only takes a few bad apples to draw unrelenting scrutiny of everyone's actions. That is happening in the industry right now, and regulatory agencies have taken note. A new initiative has grown out of the atmosphere of