Lorie Konish

In the puzzle of oncoming financial regulation, how to properly oversee a firm’s liquidity is one of the largest pieces regulators are now working to get right.

Wells has been on a hiring tear, having added advisors with more than $1.9 billion to its various wealth businesses already this month.

Tom Ford and Jeff Jones join Raymond James’s employee broker-dealer arm, Raymond James & Associates, in Peoria, Ill., and now operate as the Ford Jones Group.

Rene Nourse has established a new company, Urban Wealth Management, in El Segundo, Calif., that will use Concert Wealth Management for advisory services and Concert Advisor Services for back office support.

As experts forecast persistent fiscal issues in Europe and disappointing growth domestically, this is the most important time for advisors to pick up the phone and talk to their clients, UBS Wealth Management Americas CEO Robert McCann said.

Turning to an outside coach can help even the most successful and established multi-million dollar financial advisors and their practices run more smoothly.

Financial advisors looking to work with 20-something clients need to take a unique service approach with a group that financial services firm OrganizAmerica President Joanne Woiteshek says has traditionally been treated as the “trophy generation.”

Financial advisors who use a technology that enables them to automate portfolio rebalancing for their clients can shave the process down from 350 hours annually to 100 hours, according to new research released by CEB TowerGroup.

Wells Fargo has snapped up new advisor hires with more than $1.99 billion in assets under management in its Private Client Group, bank branch-based Wealth Brokerage Services and independent Financial Network in the past several weeks.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has hired two Wells Fargo financial advisors with $1.49 million in combined production in Syracuse, N.Y.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is combining two of its franchises to form one new Investment Products and Services division set to be led by executive Andy Saperstein.

Sports spectators will likely see a bull cross their television screens this summer, and it will not be from the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

Ultra-high-net-worth households saw the largest amount of growth in 2011, and that segment is expected to grow at the fastest clip in the next five years at a projected compound annual growth rate of 8%, according to Boston Consulting Group’s 2012 Global Wealth Report released on Thursday.

The Deleons have been registered with Wells Fargo since May 25.

A broker has consented to pay a $10,000 fine and take a suspension of 15 business days in response to allegations that he incorrectly marked trades and prevented his firm’s compliance department from accurately monitoring the transactions.

More executives of U.S. companies are more concerned with reducing the cost of employee benefits excluding health care, according to a new report released by Prudential Financial and CFO Research services on Thursday.

Wells Fargo Advisors has appointed Atul Kamra to the new role of head of advice devoted to helping grow the firm’s advice services across its wealth, brokerage and retirement divisions.

“If the phone rings and you cringe, it’s time for that client to go. Life is too short, we’re too good at what we do,” Rigas told audience members at the Women Advisors Forum conference in Dallas on Tuesday. “There is a rookie out there, there is somebody else that will be really, really happy to serve that client.”

After Ann Hughes took over a struggling annuities wirehouse division, she learned six lessons about loyalty and success that every financial advisor can apply to their practice.

In the first quarter of this year, more than 297,000 employees started or increased their 401(k) savings versus 291,000 in the first quarter of 2011.