Practice

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.

Ongoing efforts by regulators to give the public more details about financial advisors' backgrounds still haven't solved a key problem—getting more investors to use that information.

Raymond James clears one hurdle in getting early termination of the waiting period in connection with the $930 million purchase of Morgan Keegan

There’s a new authority watching over faculty and staff on campus at Wellesley College.

FSI needs a bit more time to respond, and some of the data requests seem misguided, according to a letter it sent to the Labor Department.