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A former Credit Suisse managing director for investment banking who had pleaded guilty to lying about the value of mortgage-backed bonds in 2007, avoided time in prison after cooperating with prosecutors.

An advisor team managing more than $170 million in client assets has left UBS to join Stifel, Nicolaus.

Accountants may have some concerns about forming an alliance with you. Be sure that you can understand and address their fears.

Rather than expanding the program through referrals from within, the Dallas-based bank is pushing advisors to find new business externally.

UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank, named former U.S. Senator George Mitchell chairman of a new advisory council for the firm’s business in the Americas.

High-net-worth clients increasingly find themselves having to support adult family members while Millennials consider how they can align their investments with their values.

On first Capitol Hill advocacy day, FPA advisors are meeting with policymakers to push for greater fiduciary oversight and regulation.

Sterne Agee Group's former chief executive officer faces a U.S. probe into whether he misused company assets such as airplanes, boats, hunting clubs and condominiums, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

The Federal Housing Administration clamped down further on reverse mortgages, saying it will no longer insure a variant of the product featuring a fixed rate and a line of credit.

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