Practice

Steven A. Cohen’s firm says a female executive is required by her employment contract to confidentially arbitrate her dispute with the asset manager.

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The 1,778-advisor firm constitutes the largest privately held IBD, underscoring the growing appeal of boutique-like models.

Compliance experts stress the importance of working out a game plan for how to handle an exam before the feds come knocking.

Berkery will be succeeded by Michael Blum as the chairman of UBS Bank USA. A Merrill Lynch alum, Berkery was part of the turnaround team at UBS' wealth management unit, and during her tenure, the lending book at its bank more than doubled in size.

One major help will be in helping participants think in terms of lifetime income — as opposed to accumulated balances — by requiring benefit statements to include income estimates at least once a year.

The two IBDs have agreed to pay restitution in one of the largest securities fraud cases in the advisor’s home state.

The bank sometimes ignored the advice of its own diligence vendors in packaging and selling loans.

A directive on ETFs took the advisor by surprise after several years with the No. 29 IBD, he says.

The departure is the latest in a string for the wirehouse, whose broker ranks have shrunk by more than 300 over the last year.