By the end of the month, the SEC is expected to provide formal assurances that it won’t object if brokerages break out the cost of market analysis for their European clients, rather than bundling it together with other services.
Firms should focus on two key areas to create a unified approach to compliance and risk—surveillance monitoring and the design and control of investments.
RIAs and broker/dealers say they are spending 9 percent more money -- and a lot more time -- on compliance and regulatory issues.
SEC OKs new FINRA general knowledge exam, Putnam's FundVisualizer wins best mobile app award, and HighTower adds a team in Miami.
“You can’t put one hat on when you’re talking about 50 percent of your assets and another hat on when you’re talking about another 50 percent. It makes no sense,” said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton.
There are very few digital leaders in wealth management, Dallas penny stock firm has shares suspended from trading and Working Mother magazine's list of the top 200 financial advisor moms.
The mutual fund research shop expects the vast majority of asset managers will offer a so-called "clean" share class of funds in the next five years.