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Wells Fargo Advisors has tapped an executive from Citigroup and two of its existing leaders to serve in new senior leadership roles.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Andrew Bowden as Deputy Director of the agency’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE).

The Insured Retirement Institute announced Wednesday it elected Larry Roth chairman of its board of directors.

It's no secret that the rise of mobile devices has created one of the largest shifts in consumer behavior in the last 40 years. ABI research reports that 1.2 billion smartphones will enter the market over the next five years and Morgan Stanley predicted that web browsing on mobile devices is likely to overtake desktops within the next couple years. Is your website keeping pace?

President Obama will likely win a second presidential term in November, but the election's outcome for policy and investing will likely not be as decisive, according to a research report released Wednesday by UBS Wealth Management Americas.

As efforts to apply stricter fiduciary and disclosure requirements on broker-dealers slow, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, a one-year-old think tank that advocates for uniformity, met with Mary Schapiro, the Chairman of the SEC, to make its case.

With an eye on extending a fiduciary standard to all, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard sent this declaration.

ProShares this week got some good news from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which dismissed, in its entirety, the class action lawsuit filed against the firm in 2009.

Wells Fargo Advisors has extended its summer hiring spree with the addition of two Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisors with $127 million in client assets under management.

With so many financial services-related conferences vying for the attention and attendance of advisors and wealth managers, how do you determine if a particular conference is worth committing to and what are you really hoping to get out of it?