Diana Britton is the Managing Editor of WealthManagement.com, covering asset management and independent broker/dealers from all angles. A native of Los Angeles, she now lives in Queens, N.Y.
Location: Melville, N.Y. Assets under Management: $500 million plus Production: $5 million Expertise: CPAs Some advisors make teaming up with CPAs look so easy. Jonathan Kuttin is one of them. But a successful...
Richard Aneser has been hired by Lincoln Financial Distributors to serve as chief marketing officer, a newly created position. He joins from UBS, where he served as managing director and head of advisory and solutions...
Commonwealth Financial Network snagged the top spot for the second time in a row in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study, with an overall satisfaction score of 917 out of 1,000.
It has long been debated in this industry whether commission-based advisors are doing what’s in the best interest of their clients, or simply piling them into the investments that gives them the most fees.
Former Merrill Lynch/Bank of America advisor Eva Weinberg is accused of helping steal $2.2 million from NFL player Dwight Freeney, according to a federal complaint.
About a year ago, Kevin Graham, an advisor with Princeton, N.J.-based Princeton Retirement Planning, teamed up with Jose Selaya, a CPA in Elizabeth, N.J. Selaya had been Graham’s personal accountant for over 20...
Cabot Lodge Securities, a newly formed office of supervisory jurisdiction of Allied Beacon Partners, plans to open three new offices on the East Coast over the next couple months. Stephen Rooney, vice president of...
Insurance giant The Hartford announced today that it will exit the annuity business and sell off its life insurance, retirement plan and independent broker/dealer (Woodbury Financial Services) units.