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An exit from the European Union doesn't necessarily require immediately pulling out from the U.K. bond market.

Three advisors who left the firm years ago are returning to the regional broker-dealer.

Fiduciary advocates lament the absence of the term from the SEC's rule, which they say fails to move beyond FINRA’s existing suitability standard, while the brokerage sector sees the proposal as a welcome jump in oversight.

FINRA plans to unveil a new user interface for its central registration depository system on June 30.

Alan Moore is co-founder and CEO of the advisor support platform XYPN. He also founded AdvicePay, a platform for processing payments and overseeing compliance of fee-for-service financial planning.

Tim Laehn is a director at Denim, a mobile and social media advertising automation platform for financial services companies.

The move is an early indication of how firms may react to the demise of the Labor Department regulation.

Anthony Pumphrey, CFA, ASA, is vice president of Valuation Research Corporation. He has over 10 years of experience performing business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, impairment analyses, and the valuation of claims within complex capital structures for public and private companies under IRC 409a, ASC 350, ASC 360, ASC 718, ASC 805, ASC 820, and ASC 852. Mr. Pumphrey has presented on financial reporting at the American Institute of CPAs' Forensic & Valuation Services Conference and has guest lectured on valuation topics at Drexel University. Mr. Pumphrey holds a bachelor of business administration (BBA) degree in finance and real estate from Temple University. He also holds the designations of chartered financial analyst (CFA) and accredited senior appraiser (ASA), issued by the CFA Institute and the American Society of Appraisers, respectively.

The Tax Court rules that creditors must have hard evidence that an obligation is uncollectable before they deduct it.

Wealth Enhancement Group has nearly doubled its assets over a two-year period.