Investment Platforms
Get the latest news and insights on investment platforms (including digital, mobile and online platforms), and how these developments impact financial advisors, the wealth management industry and more.
Before Obama Speech, American Energy Innovation Council Pushes Agenda
By John SullivanWith President Obama set to address the Gulf oil spill, cap and trade legislation, and alternative energy sources in a speech to the nation Tuesday night, June 15, the country's top business leaders want it known they have ideas of their own.
June 01, 2010
Stifel Strikes Deal To Acquire WeiselStifel Financial and Thomas Weisel Partners Group have entered into a roughly $300-million merger agreement, several months after Stifel acquired 56 UBS branches. If the merger...
June 01, 2010
Major Firms Grow Results on Strong 'Q1 MarketsFirst-quarter results at the wirehouses indicate that Morgan Stanley Smith Barney leads the pack in terms of the number of financial advisors, while Merrill Lynch...
May 26, 2010
Baird Draws Four Advisors From Morgan Stanley, Opens Wealth Management OfficeBaird said that it just added four financial advisors and opened the firm's first wealth management office in Charlotte, N.C.
May 18, 2010
NPH Announces Slight Increase in Year-Over-Year Sales for Q1On the heels of a strong earnings announcement from parent company Jackson National Life, National Planning Holdings, Inc. (NPH), the broker/dealer unit owned by the Michigan-based insurance company, announced mixed results on Tuesday, May 18.
May 12, 2010
Three Growth Drivers of the Best Advisory Firms: Practice Edge for May 2010Preliminary findings of the 2010 Rydex|SGI AdvisorBenchmarking survey
May 11, 2010
Investors Capital Advisory Hits $1 Billion in AUM; ICA to Host First Women's ConfabInvestors Cap, which has some 550 independent advisors, will host women's conference in Boston
May 11, 2010
Fidelity Separates Asset Management from DistributionAbigail Johnson promoted to head all of distribution; Ronald O'Hanley hired to lead asset management and corporate services.