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A great wealth transfer may indeed be looming, but advisory firm executives are still focusing their creative energy on their boomer (and older) clients.

SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter endorsed a uniform fiduciary standard for all investment pros … then invited her audience to fight industry fraud and abuse by becoming whistleblowers

NAPFA named management consultant Geoffrey Brown on Monday as its new CEO, succeeding Ellen Turf, who held the post since 2002.

Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Bank advisors producing $120,000 in revenue had an average payout of 20% last year; those producing more than $2 million averaged 41%.

Federated Investors has decided to liquidate the Federated Alabama Municipal Cash Trust (ALMXX).

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association named former New Hampshire governor and U.S. senator Judd A. Gregg as its next chief executive officer.

Altegris is broadening its Altegris Macro Strategy Fund (MCRAX, MCRCX, MCRIX, MCRNX) by allocating the fund’s assets to the global macro strategies of 300 North Capital and Willowbridge Associates.

"I think to just look at numbers on Wall Street and say, 'It looks like it's struggling' -- it's contracting in a very healthy way," said fomer Morgan Stanly Executive Bob Auer. "It's almost like a big fat guy that is losing weight. To say, 'Oh, he's just not the same guy…' No -- he's getting healthier and better."

When it comes to global investing, clients and their advisors often have varied concerns. From home-country bias to political instability, here are their most pressing worries.