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Eaton Vance Corp. has hired away an executive vice president from LPL Financial.

The NYSE Euronext and NASDAQ Stock Market remains closed for the second day in a row as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall along the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states leaving behind massive power outages and devastation in its wake.

With tablet and smartphone use on the rise, there is no shortage of finance applications for such devices.

In real estate, the three keys are location, location and location. But in the case of Charles Schwab's latest ETF Investor Snapshot, the keys are real estate and more real estate.

Updated to include information about LPL. While the Northeast hunkered down yesterday waiting for Hurricane Sandy, it was pretty much business as usual for bank advisors—or at least for their clients.

While many major financial firms and residents have geared up for Hurricane Sandy and its potentially devastating impact, are advisors and their practices ready for such inclement weather? Do they know what to do? Jude Boudreaux, an advisor whose practice, Upperline Financial, based in New Orleans, has some tips.

Amid the driving wind and rain, advisors battled back with generators, data backups ... and chainsaws.

As Hurricane Sandy moves in on the Northeast, firms such as Philadelphia-based Janney Montgomery Scott implement contingency plans to help advisors and clients.

State securities regulators brought 399 enforcement actions against investment advisor firms in 2011, nearly double the total from 2010.

Invesco recently announced the launch of a new application intended for financial intermediaries and investors. Though it's still a bit early to tell how much advisors and clients will like and use the app, the good news for Invesco is that advisor tech expert Bill Winterberg gives this app a passing grade.