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The recruit joined a practice opened by a former complex director from the same wirehouse.

Edward Wedbush allegedly failed to supervise mandated regulatory filings.

The agency also proposed a rule to permit cities to create their own savings plans.

Eligible taxpayers can now qualify for a waiver of the 60-day time limit and avoid possible taxes and penalties on early distributions, if they meet certain requirements.

The fundamental nature of the social network is interaction and conversation — not the simple spouting of PR.

For one strategy, clients should create income streams that have built-in protection, such as Social Security and long-term insurance.

Far from signaling industry hardship, increasing liquidations reflect the ETF industry’s ebullient growth.

The fifth-biggest bank in the U.S. strikes deal with BlackRock’s FutureAdvisor to offer automated investing service.

The wirehouse is also reorganizing how it deploys a number of product and service consultants and technology specialists.

The wirehouse advisers generated a combined $2 million in annual revenue at the time of their departure.

Drivers in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, and New Jersey will be offered IRAs first, with plans to expand to other cities later this year.

The country's largest independent broker-dealer says compliance with the new fiduciary rule will offer competitive advantages.

The rule is finally dragging traditional brokers into the modern era.

A proposed 22.3% increase in Medicare Part B premiums, if approved, will automatically be deducted from retirees' monthly checks.

The case, filed on behalf of an on-call branch office manager who works with advisers, follows similar retirement plan-related litigation recently filed against other firms, including Morgan Stanley.

The veteran supervisor got his start at Merrill Lynch in the early 1980s.

Because of looming long-term risks, officials need to consider "trying to slowly normalize rates, because otherwise you contribute to excessive risk taking," says Allianz's chief economic adviser.

This in-house position helps one firm attract larger clients and build contractual relationships with descendants.

A long-awaited IPO comes with many questions.

The firm says it has put regulatory fines in its rearview mirror, has invested in tech upgrades and has devoted resources to helping advisers adapt to the DoL fiduciary rule.