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JonesTrading Institutional JonesTrading to Acquire Conifer SecuritiesServices said it signed a letter of intent to acquire Conifer Securities from the Conifer Group.

Norman Greenidge will be responsible for meeting the wealth management needs of professional athletes through Northern Trust's core services of financial planning, investment management, trust and estate planning and private banking.

Equity fund investors appear to be exiting from mutual funds and investing in ETFs instead. The ICI reported net redemptions of $64.673 billion for U.S. equity funds and $42.887 billion for all equity funds for the year to date.

Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States government a year ago has had a wide but shallow impact on municipal bonds.

Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to settle charges that its brokerage and a former vice president sold securities it didn't understand to municipalities, non-profit organizations and other customers.

Steve Wershing, "The Referral Doctor," says one of the great misconceptions in our business is that clients "give" us referrals. If advisors want to learn how to attract a significant number of ongoing referrals, they must understand the dynamic that causes people to make referrals in the first place.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 2.71 points Tuesday to close at 13.172.14 while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq trimmed 0.58 points and 5.54 points, respectively. Here are some more details from Tuesday's trading session: Dow Jones Industrial Average: Up six of the past eight trading days. An intraday high of 13223.01 occurred at 09:32:19 today, representing an increase of 53.58 points, or 0.41%. An intraday low of 13142.10 occurred at 15:53:39 today, representing a decrease of down 27.33…

TD Ameritrade Institutional claims its iRebal system will allow financial planners to rebalance client portfolios in "near-zero" time.

As sales of ETFs boom, the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy has released an investor bulletin on the investment vehicle.

U.S. debt yields put you asleep. But you better be on your toes, with the adventure involved in emerging market bonds.

As sales of ETFs boom, the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy has released an investor bulletin on the investment vehicle.

First Trust Advisors has rolled out two new ETFs based on NASDAQ indices. The First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund and the Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund, which is based on the NASDAQ Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index, began trading Tuesday on NASDAQ.

Here's something for the estimated 72 million 401(k) participants to look forward to at the end of this month: On Aug. 30, the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration participant fee disclosure rule, dubbed ERISA 404(a)(5), will go into effect.

Independent financial advisors are strong supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in his presidential bid, a new survey has found.

WallachBeth Capital, an institutional brokerage firm, has created the WallachBeth Healthcare Research Group.

Equity fund investors appear to be exiting from mutual funds and investing in ETFs instead. Fixed income funds are a different story.

Birmingham, Ala.-based advisor group Bridgeworth Financial, with nearly $1 billion in AUM, has left Lincoln Financial to join the country's largest independent B-D, LPL Financial, in a move that demonstrates the benefits of scale.

Susan Pickering will lead a team of relationship managers for high-net-worth clients and retirement plan services for institutions.

On August 30, the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration participant fee disclosure rule, dubbed ERISA 404(a)(5), will go into effect.

First Trust Advisors has rolled out the First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund and the Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund.