Practice

Ninety-two percent of wealthy investors are actively looking for market opportunities, according to a U.S. Bank survey.

The Philadelphia wealth manager hired Susan P. Mucciarone as a senior vice president and director of wealth services.

The initial reactions among financial services companies to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act have been trepidation and fear.

UBS named Karl Ruppert as the director of a complex with 66 advisors and $5.3 billion of assets.

While 90% of wealthy business owners give to charity, only one-fourth of entrepreneurs say their financial advisor helps them plan for it.

More IT spending will shift its strategic use to better understand customers and markets, boost sales opportunities, survey says.

Considered to be a deal broker and careful listener by those who have worked with him in the past, Joseph Smith won near-universal acclaim as Obama's pick to lead the FHFA.

“We are planning for the worst case scenario,” Robert Glovsky, the board’s chairman, said in an interview Friday. “We are worried that there will be fallout and we are planning accordingly.”

There isn’t much positive movement now in either recruitment or compensation, but a reviving market should change all that next year, Russell Reynolds predicts.

Just when branch managers thought their jobs couldn’t get any more complicated, Mary Schapiro says that her agency is looking at regulating broker pay.