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.
If you opened up a copy of BusinessWeek just two weeks ago and bothered to glance through the ads, you’d see a picture of $2.3 million producer Peter Sargent featured in Merrill Lynch’s ‘The Power of...
There’s been a lot of speculation over how many of Morgan Keegan’s 1,000 financial advisors will stick around as the firm gets absorbed into acquirer Raymond James, a deal expected to close in April. Some...
In the spirit of fairness and objective journalism, I wanted to point you to an article that makes counter-arguments to our December 2011 cover story, “Is Tactical Investing Wall Street’s Next Clown Act...
Morgan Keegan has lost seven financial advisors since December, FINRA filings show. They follow some 190 other advisors who fled over the past six months, after corporate parent Regions Financial Corp. put the broker...
Family ties run deep, to a certain point. I recently came across a Supreme Court filing against Raymond James Financial Services and Dwight Wanken, a branch manager, that exemplifies the dangers of the family business...
Lincoln Investment Planning, an independent broker/dealer in Philadelphia, announced it will acquire independent broker-dealer Capital Analysts from insurance firm Western & Southern Financial Group. The move will...