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Money managers and brokers shunned Barclays Plc’s dark pool, and Chief Executive Officer Antony Jenkins pledged an urgent inquiry, after the bank was accused of lying to clients about high-frequency trading on the venue.

A growing number of community banks are adopting bank-owned life insurance as a way to counter shrinking loan margins and diminished returns on other investments. BOLI can also help banks that are trying to meet higher capital requirements.

Barclays was so bent on lifting its private trading venue to the upper ranks of Wall Street dark pools that it lied to customers and masked the role of high- frequency traders, according to New York’s attorney general.

Five years later, Julius Baer's CEO makes his mark, turning Switzerland's third-largest wealth manager into a global business spanning Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

Offering just one solution, even if you're an expert on that strategy, will limit your flexibility.

These combination or hybrid products package long-term care coverage with a life insurance policy or annuity-like product.

Selling a home in retirement; Frailty risk different from health care expenses; State of senior health, by state.

Most of the world’s economic growth will come from outside the U.S, yet most American investors are still under-diversified in international assets.

Markets are rising, job satisfaction is high -- but stress levels are increasing for financial advisors.

Advisors are using an array of sophisticated techniques to build engagement with existing HNW clients and garner interest from new ones. Here are 14 ways to win and retain ultra-wealthy clients.

Every year we run the numbers to see how the top 10 list would change if the B-D networks aggregated their revenue numbers. This year we added another twist, looking at how the rankings would be affected if the new RCS network had in fact been put together before the end of the year.

Joseph Ellison claimed that while he was promised that he'd work at JP Morgan, he wound up getting old Bear Stearns.

On October 22, 2010 the U.S. Department of Labor proposed to broadly amend the definition of fiduciary under ERISA as a person who provides investment advice to plans for a fee or other compensation. The rule has generated a lot of controversy, and the DOL has delayed the redraft of it until at least January 2015.

Lawmakers asked to back proposal to assist troops, vets with severe money woes with enhanced financial planning services.

A Stifel advisor team that managed almost $200 million in assets has left the firm to join Raymond James & Associates.

The value of small-cap value funds; Managing the "new retirement;" Clients want to be more "hands-on" with their 401(k) plans.

Hundreds of mutual fund and ETF providers gathered at Morningstar's Investment Conference last week to pursue their equivalent of high-speed dating: meeting face-to-face with the 1,400 planners and advisors in attendance.

When bills supporting deregulation gain support while high-profile members of Congress speak out in favor of stricter enforcement, our guest columnist says banks find themselves wondering if “they love me” or “they love me not.”

Cold calling prospects is a great strategy if you approach it the right way—calling lists are relatively easy to obtain and few other advisors are doing it.