Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown
The longer clients stay with Ritholtz Wealth Management, the less they will pay. The 2-year-old firm, run by Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown, announced this week that they were implementing a policy of lowering fees...
Putnam Investment's 2015 Financial Advisors and Social Media Survey from Putnam Investments
More advisors are starting to see the value of using social media. According to a recent survey of over 800 advisors by Putnam Investments, 81 p...
Someone had to be first.
Folio Investing and Folio Institutional announced Tuesday that it would be the first broker/dealer to offer NextShares, the actively managed funds that look like exchange-traded funds, directly to individual investors...
That's one idea. | Copyright Max Whittaker, Getty Images
Many of the investment innovations cooked up for big institutional players (think pensions, endowments, insurance companies) eventually roll down to the retail channel; consider liabilit...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning broker/dealers that their guardrails around selling so-called structured notes are, almost without exception, weak. The commission issued ...
An ideal time to talk to children | Guillermo Lobo/iStock/Thinkstock
According to a Visa survey, children in the U.S. this year receive an average of $3.19 per tooth from the Tooth Fairy, a 24-cent drop from 2014. Younger children, who can exp...
The latest fight has been settled. | Evening Standard/Getty Images
Another example of what happens when the wealthy die without a will: The latest in a long line of conflicts among the surviving members of Jimi Hendrix’s family settled out of ...
The flip side. | Image via The New York Post
The New York Post is reporting that former Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort spotted an acquaintance from his drug-fueled Wall Street wild days in a gallery of images of homeless people sleeping on...
Open door policy for hackers?
According to a Vanguard client relationship manager, the world’s largest mutual fund company has not taken necessary steps to address serious security concerns with its website. Karen Brock said that in May 2013...
