Practice

Here’s an interactive slide show detailing the best investment ideas for this election year from seven financial advisors practicing throughout the country.

Former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisor Victor Manuel Rivera Jr. pled guilty in a New Jersey federal court to stealing more than $90,000 from the accounts of his clients.

The SEC filed a complaint this month accusing Brenda Eschbach of misappropriating over $3 million of her clients’ funds.

Regulators are stepping up their efforts to safeguard investors and their money from unscrupulous financial advisors. Here’s an interactive slide show detailing five advisors who have already found themselves in the SEC’s crosshairs this year.

HNW clients are price sensitive, but advisors have made their case as the economy comes out of the financial crisis.

As brokers and investors are all too aware by now, IRS Form 1099-B, on which brokerage transactions are reported, has a new look this year and advisors and clients are scrambling to makes sense of it.

New study finds that majority of middle-income Americans admit to knowing little about the Medicare program.

NYSE Euronext said its annual report to the SEC that it incurred $85 million of legal, banking and other expenses in 2011 from its unsuccessful plan to merge with Deutsche Boerse.

David Ford, a financial advisor in Spooner, Wis., has joined independent broker-dealer Securities America.

Three-quarters of advisors at financial firms anticipate a continued rise in the number of peers making the leap to independence, according to a survey by Charles Schwab.