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Power of Independent RIAs Causing Asset Management Shake-Up
By John SullivanFee-only consultants gaining in influence and assets.
March 01, 2011
Time to Move?If there’s one theme in the industry that nearly everyone seems to share, it’s that the time is right, now, for the movement of advisors and their clients’ assets.
March 01, 2011
MetLife Signs FirstrustFirstrust Financial Resources L.L.C., a bank-owned wealth management firm, has agreed to represent MetLife in the Philadelphia area.
March 01, 2011
Industry Pans Accidental Fiduciary StatusFinancial services industry providers today asked the U.S. Department of Labor to treat them as retirement plan fiduciaries only if they agree in writing to be plan fiduciaries.
February 24, 2011
Gemini Partners With Broadridge for Sales SupportGemini Fund Services announced a strategic partnership Wednesday with Access Data, a Broadridge Co. and provider of enterprise reporting and data management services for the financial services industry.
February 24, 2011
LPL’s Bill Dwyer Makes the Case for BD Scale“Biggest bull market in advice ever” can best be met by advisors aligning with a firm with scale, like his, Dwyer told AdvisorOne.
February 24, 2011
Libya Turned Down Madoff, Stanford Proposals: WikileaksA leaked cable via Wikileaks reveals, according to a Wednesday MSNBC report, that the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi was approached for the purpose of soliciting investments by both Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford.
February 23, 2011
Baird Adds 7 Advisors in Midwest, Southeast From Morgan StanleyThree FAs join Baird from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Sioux City, Iowa, while three others come on board in Charleston, S.C. and one more in Charlotte, N.C.