Practice

BATS Global Markets chief executive Joe Ratterman told customers and members of its exchanges that last week's "failure to perform as expected has no excuses.”

Running a planning practice takes you into a lot of chicken-and-egg situations, such as needing to have scale before you can get the tools you need to grow. Bob Veres has answers for RIAs starting out or struggling to grow their firms.

The founder of Veritable, the country’s third-largest RIA, says his firm’s new partnership with wealth management giant Affiliated Managers Group is part of a broader effort to build a business that can last for generations.

A shift in American investor appetite towards investment outcome, as opposed to relative return, is changing their buying behavior, according to research published by Casey, Quirk & Associates and the eVestment Alliance.

Commerce Bank promoted a portfolio manager in Kansas City to vice president and market executive for its trust operation’s central Missouri region.

The SEC is focusing on computer-driven exchanges, including BATS Global Markets, as platforms for high-frequency trading firms to gain an unfair advantage over other investors.

This week, IRA expert Ed Slott fields questions about withdrawal limits for non-designated beneficiaries and required distributions.

Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Harriet Jacobs regional sales director for its Government Markets business. Jacobs is based in Los Angeles and reports to Brent Neese, vice president of Government Markets.

Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. has selected Indianapolis-based McCready and Keene, an actuarial and retirement benefits consulting firm, as the exclusive service provider for its 401(k) plan, which currently has 6,000 employees and more than $7.5 million in assets, which transferred on March 1.

The more than 1,300 registered representatives and financial advisors at Ameritas Investment will now be able to breathe easy as they tweet.