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Ruth Wimer is a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP. She has experience advising clients on complex compensation tax issues, including reporting and withholding.

It appears the regulator bought into the investor choice argument of sales reps right from the beginning.

New rules recognize the fact that commission-based transaction services can be the most cost effective way for Main Street investors to receive financial advice.

The wirehouse recently reported advisor headcount shrank by 258 advisors year-over-year.

Jean-Marie van der Elst is a Director in Berkeley Research Group.

Ozgur B. Kan is a Managing Director and the leader of Credit Analytics Practice in Berkeley Research Group.

The private equity firm’s credit arm grew significantly with the addition of a new insurance platform and an energy investment management unit.

Jeremy R. Newell is executive managing director, head of regulatory affairs and general counsel of The Clearing House Association.

Books can be great marketing tools, but also time consuming.

André Christ is co-founder and co-CEO of LeanIX. André's passion lies in enabling organizations and their employees to build better products by moving to a modern IT architecture. Before André co-founded LeanIX, a software-as-a-service vendor, he gained extensive experience as a management consultant at the world’s largest logistics company. In this role, he advised CIOs and IT leaders on strategic topics at the interface of business and IT. Projects included the execution of a global IT complexity reduction program and the definition of an IT service and cost charging model for their world-wide data centers. During his studies of information science in Germany and France, he built modern software architectures for both startups and large enterprises. He is a global thought leader and has spoken at several high-influence industry events including Gartner’s EA Summit, Hamburger IT Strategy Days and Rethink! IT.