Industry

The Securities and Exchange Commission is turning over its leadership with the departure of yet another high-ranking official.

Many Americans are in the dark about stock market performance in 2012, according to an Edward Jones survey.

Two teams with over $1 million in production have joined Merrill Lynch in St. Paul, Minn., and Ithaca, N.Y.

A little more than a year after launching Retirement Ready, a retirement income program for its advisors, John Hancock Financial Network today announced the launch of a new iPad application and updates to the program.

Huntington Asset Services is looking to boost its sales team.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has refocused on growing fee-based and banking business and boosting client retention.

Beverly Hills Financial Planners, Informative Financial Services, and Ranker-Hanshaw Wealth Management are the newest firms to join Royal Alliance, which has nearly 2,000 affiliated independent financial advisors.

Al Falco will work with individual clients in the Hartford area and institutional asset managers for middle-market corporations and non-profits.

Armed with new executives and a new partnership with an RIA, the online wealth advisory and lead generation firm for advisors, is thinking expansion.

Determined to keep its 48-year-old firm’s “small, hometown feel,” Investors Security of Suffolk, Va., has decided to drop its own broker-dealer and affiliate with Securities America.