Portfolio

Charles Schwab announced Monday that it has joined with Piper Jaffray to provide clients access to Piper Jaffray's new issue municipal bonds through Schwab's BondSource Platform.

A year ago, Morningstar introduced its forward-looking analyst ratings system for the mutual funds it covers in the United States.

Social media marketing may be a foreign language that some advisors stumble with, but becoming a master of it is only a matter of time. Craig Faulkner, chief executive officer of FMG Suite and the company’s social marketing guru identifies some of the more common mistakes that can trip up advisors.

Nuveen Investments has added equities veteran Bob Doll to its asset management team.

Debt casts a big shadow in the minds of most Wall Street thinkers’ as they make their 2013 forecasts, and Jim Swanson of MFS Investments warns investors not to take the complacent view of “well, we’re a lot better off than Greece and Italy.”

Securities and advisory firm, Multi-Financial Securities Corporation, announced today the signing of two new advisors, Dave Strunc and Nicholas Russell, founders of Sunrise Wealth Advisors, an Orlando, FL, based advisory firm.

The Investment Company Institute, noting its disagreements with outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary L. Schapiro, lauded the “record of accomplishment” of the woman nominated to succeed her.

Legg Mason has joined as one of a handful of firms to win approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch active exchange-traded funds.

President Obama has nominated commissioner Elisse B. Walter, a critic of the mutual fund industry, to succeed Mary L. Schapiro as chairman.

The RIA channel is growing rapidly as firms with more than $1 billion in assets continues to drive growth, according to a report from Cerulli & Associates.