United Capital Financial Advisors’ 50 offices will be completely paperless by the end of the year. From the client onboarding process all the way to being fully invested, clients won’t have to touch a piece of paper, CEO Joe Duran told...
Cambridge Investment Research joined several other independent broker/dealers in temporarily suspending Cole Capital products amid the growing fallout from Nicholas Schorsch’s American Realty Capital Properties’ disclosure of a $23...
Women will retire with two-thirds the assets of men, yet they will live six to eight years longer. And for affluent women, the majority of their money is unmanaged; it’s in the bank, said Sallie Krawcheck, former head of Bank of America...
About half of RIAs have a succession plan in place that outlines who will take over the firm.
Moreover, of those firms who have procedures in place, 37 reported said their successors are “extremely prepared” to take the reins and lead the compan...
The emerging markets make up 90 percent of the world’s population, yet the world is still not convinced of their importance. But the emerging markets could be key to preventing a global depression, said Dr. Dambisa Moyo, economist and author...
How do you become a $1 billion firm? In 2009, there were 300 independent advisory firms that had $1 billion in assets under management, according to the Alliance for Registered Investment Advisors. Today that number is past 700 and appears to be...
On the heels of Charles Schwab’s recent announcement that it would come out with an online advice platform, CEO and President Walt Bettinger assuaged advisors’ concerns at the firm’s annual IMPACT conference this morning...
Greg Valliere of the Potomac Research Group says the mid-term elections Tuesday will be a “great night” for Republicans, but they are making a mistake if they think the U.S. electorate is giving them a broad mandate...