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The offerings outperformed their developed-nation counterparts this year on the back of faster growth and narrower current-account deficits.

The independent advisor will retain branding rights and full autonomy.

Planning may help high-income seniors avoid paying up to four times the going rate for Part B and Part D coverage.

An associate in Bracewell’s Washington, D.C. office, Britt Cass Steckman focuses her practice on civil and criminal litigation and federal securities law. Her clients include individuals, broker-dealers and municipal securities dealers, municipal advisors, large and medium sized investment banks, municipal issuers and nationally recognized statistical rating organizations. She can be reached at britt.steckman@bracewell.com.

Edward Fierro is senior counsel in Bracewell’s Houston office where he serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel and purchaser’s counsel in a spectrum of public finance transactions. Previously, he served as senior counsel to the director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Municipal Securities. He can be reached at ed.fierro@bracewell.com.

Sunny Manivannan is general manager of Coupa Expenses. He is passionate about helping people get more done in less time with less work.

The country’s sixth-largest IBD is shifting its management ranks in a change prompted by the fiduciary rule.

Will young RIAs lead the profession’s second uprising against the established status quo?