Practice

Financial services firms have to start recruiting the half-million college students who may be interested in becoming advisors, or risk having demand for financial advice outstrip supply within ten years, a new study from Pershing shows.

At a time when recruiting is down across the independent broker-dealer space, Cetera Financial Group has added 247 net new advisors nationwide between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2013.

Unexpected pitfalls often cast a pall on clients’ dreams of retiring to foreign lands.

Seeking to end probes of a trading debacle that damaged its reputation for risk-management, JPMorgan agreed to pay about $920 million for failing to implement adequate controls and providing incomplete information to regulators and its board.

Eight ideas for clients thinking of retiring to exotic locales.

When interviewing, hiring, and onboarding recent college graduates, financial planning firm leaders should plan to ask tough and innovative questions, listen extensively, and spend much more time and energy offering the new employees honest compliments rather than just criticizing them.

Bloomberg -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told employees to prepare for more legal woes while the bank undertakes an “unprecedented effort” to comply with regulations.

Wall Street banks, facing a drop in third-quarter trading revenue, are counting on today’s Federal Reserve announcement to spark a surge in volume.

Malvern Bancorp is being challenged by a pair of dissidents in a development that highlights investors' growing frustration with the banking industry's inability to put capital to work.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told employees to prepare for more legal woes while the bank undertakes an “unprecedented effort” to comply with regulations.