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With a bullish outlook for careers in financial planning, TD Ameritrade Institutional has created a scholarship fund aimed at injecting fresh blood into the industry.

An enforcement action from the Securities & Exchange Commission is a timely reminder to advisors to disclose any financial benefits their firm may receive from the broker-dealer it recommends to clients.

The new AIG Advisor Group system will allow its advisors’ clients to select a trusted family member or friend to help them make smarter financial decisions, explains Larry Roth, president and CEO of AIG’s Advisor Group, one of the largest networks of independent broker-dealers in the country.

Community Capital Management is expanding it’s northeastern presence with a new hire and a new office.

Montpelier, VT-based Sentinel Investments has liquidated its Sentinel Mid Cap II (SYVCX) Fund and transferred all of the fund’s assets into the Sentinel Mid Cap Fund (SNTNX), effective April 12.

FINRA fined Merrill $1.05 million and ordered the firm to pay more than $323,000 in restitution for over 12,000 trades executed on its ML BondMarket platform.

Doug Heding joined the Private Client Reserve as a private banking officer in Milwaukee; Kenan Aksoz joined as a wealth management consultant in Minneapolis.

Goldman Sachs reported earnings that topped analysts’ estimates on a 63% gain in revenue from underwriting stocks and bonds.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. set aside $4.34 billion to pay employees in the first quarter, about 1 percent less than a year earlier, as the firm employed 400 fewer people.

BlackRock's first-quarter earnings rose 10% as its exchange-traded equities funds drew client cash and assets increased.

Northern Trust, the third- biggest independent U.S. custody bank, said first-quarter profit rose 1.7 percent as stock-market gains boosted the value of assets the company oversees.

Small businesses are more likely to comply with the tax laws if they are in certain communities in the country and if they have more trust in their tax preparer, according to a report by the Taxpayer Advocate Service.

New rules to reduce risk in money-market mutual funds will be proposed in the next two months by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which won’t be slowed by a leadership change, a commissioner said.

Vanguard reported that expense ratios have changed for three of its mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined a firm $37,500 for trade and books and records violations, and a broker $5,000, giving him a four-month suspension, for telling a customer he redeemed bonds rather than sold them without the customer's permission.

Companies that submitted initial resolution plans last year to the Fed and FDIC under Dodd-Frank must detail in their second drafts how they would address impediments to a wind-down and follow the series of steps required for bankruptcy.

Broadridge today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has greenlighted 16 original patent claims as well as five new claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,122,635 (‘635 Patent’).

Vanguard last week reported that expense ratios have changed for three of its mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.

Guinness Atkinson Asset Management last week disclosed in a regulatory filing its first proposed exchange-traded fund: a dividend offering.

Since peaking at $1,900 per ounce in September 2011, the price of gold has dropped nearly 22%, to last Friday’s close. Labeling himself an “inveterate contrarian,” John Stoltzfus, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer, suggests that a near-term bounce might be in order.