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Armed with funds from a hefty fee hike, the Washington, D.C.-based group unveiled its public awareness campaign on Thursday, during a Webinar with industry participants.

Pershing is expanded its focus on the retirement market to help broker-dealers and registered investment advisors capture the rollover market, which is estimated to be $303 billion a year.

Some advisors are averse to even DISCUSSING the value of portfolio management, possibly believing that we all spend too much time talking as if financial planning and portfolio management are the same service--which they clearly are not.

FINRA fined Jefferies & Co. $1.5 million, ordered the investment bank to repay $425,000 in ill-gotten commissions and fees and suspended a pair of its brokers for failing to disclose additional compensation to institutional clients and other conflicts of interest related to shady sales of auction rate securities between August 2007 and March 2008.

Four in 10 working Americans say they will never be able to afford to retire, a Harris Interactive survey of 1,005 adults for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants found.

AXA Equitable has launched two new “virtual consultation” calculators accompanied with videos of licensed and experienced financial consultants to help individuals determine how much life insurance they may need and how long their retirement savings will last.

The wirehouse advisor market is shrinking with only Wells Fargo showing growth. Tiburon's Roame predicts UBS Wealth Americas might be sold.

Van Eck Global has launched the Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap ETF, a fund that seeks to replicate the Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap Index.

Wealthy women want three things from their financial advisors: honesty, trustworthiness, and transparency, according to “Wealthy Women Investors,” a Spectrem eZine report released on Thursday.

In the wake of the Great Recession, deep-pocketed investors are hedging their bets more than ever not only with the type of investments they're making but also with the advisors they're counting on to show them the money.