Bank channel

The firm has seen a number of planners exit in recent months.

About 30% of fund manager appointments in the firm’s equity unit have gone to women in 2018, the most in five years.

The regional BD continues to benefit from the ongoing stream departing the wirehouse.

There are at least 200 fewer products available since 2015. Some advisors haven’t noticed. But should they?

Kelly Coffey will succeed Russell Goldsmith as CEO of City National, a Los Angeles-based unit of RBC.

Clients are willing to pay more for tax advice, but they’re still not getting it.

You’ll probably find administrators blocking the backdoor Roth IRA strategy more than anyone else, says Kimberly Foss, planner, author and Financial Planning contributor. That’s when you’ll have to adopt the role of educator, she says.

Darrell Smith stole $2.4 million from his clients to fund bio-energy companies.

It’s at least the fifth time this year that the bank is suing a former advisor for allegedly violating a non-solicitation agreement.

Schwab, Vanguard and LPL explained their approach to campaign donations as the industry and its supporting sectors provided $19 million in PAC contributions.

Melvin Leonard Wimmer Jr. is said to have bilked clients out of their retirement savings.

The bank’s effort to show that the advisors violated non-solicitation agreements was “far from persuasive, never mind conclusive,” the judge ruled.

Advanced analytics is helping generate alpha, experts say.

John Gregory Schmidt allegedly devised a 14-year scheme that straddled his time with Stifel and Wells Fargo.

The holidays must be coming soon because BIC is working on its annual ranking of top bank advisors.

The holding company launched only two years ago, but it’s already made two purchases and has several more in the works.

The company is bridging its bank and wirehouse through training programs, compensation plans and technology investments

The bank, which has 265,000 employees, is struggling to grow under the weight of a Federal Reserve assets cap.

The advisors say they violated no contracts and took no confidential client information when they resigned from the bank.

Two of the league's top lifetime earners, Tim Duncan, and now Kevin Garnett, say Banks collectively stole more than $100 million.