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Bloomberg -- Stock brokers who are lured to new firms with signing bonuses of at least $100,000 will be required to inform clients under a rule approved by FINRA.

Culture clash between merging firms can mean the end of even a well-planned deal.

FINRA is pressing ahead with a controversial new rule that would require brokers to make disclosures about recruitment compensation they receive as an enticement to jump to a new firm.

Brokerages from Morgan Stanley to Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch poach salesmen from one another, offering bonuses based on how much revenue they produce. Now brokers receiving bonuses of at least $100,000 will be required to inform clients.

Bloomberg -- Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said his personal investments include municipal bonds and a biotech fund, while he favors global equities for his children’s accounts.

Bloomberg -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., seeking to end probes of a trading debacle that damaged its reputation for risk-management, agreed to pay about $920 million for failing to implement adequate controls and providing incomplete information to regulators and its board.

Think you might be bored at your kids' birthday party? Think again. Dave Grant shares three business lessons he learned at his son's recent party.

Exclusive: Widespread abuse of the term raises question of a disciplinary double-standard.

Low rates and longer lives make the conventional wisdom of 4% withdrawal rates obsolete.

Financial services firms have to start recruiting the half-million college students who may be interested in becoming advisors, or risk having demand for financial advice outstrip supply within ten years, a new study from Pershing shows.