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Pahnke and his team, the Pahnke Wealth Management Group, join from Robert W. Baird.

T. Rowe Price has named Scott B. David director of third party distribution, charged with overseeing distribution, sales and marketing and expanding and deepening the company’s relationships with financial intermediaries in the U.S.

With new ETF, Factor Advisors lowers the cost of taking bull and bear positions in spread exchange products.

Lincoln Financial Group says it took swift action to safeguard private consumer information and beef up its security policies, after it discovered vulnerabilities in a Web-based system that stored consumer account records for two of its business units.

Great-West Retirement Services has hired Adam Blitz as regional sales director for Long Island, a newly created position in which he is responsible for developing 401(k) plan business through brokers, financial advisers, consultants, wirehouses and third-party administrators.

Forward Management LLC has just introduced an alternative-strategy mutual fund, and the company's chief executive officer predicts demand for such funds will help fuel a huge leap in the firm's assets.

Financial advisors are turning their backs on traditional wirehouses, bank brokerages and independent broker-dealers at rapid pace, according to a new report from Charles Schwab, opting instead for a hybrid model that allows them to serve as both an RIA and a registered rep and expand their pool of potential clients.

The Boston fund company named D. William Kohli, Michael V. Salm and Paul D. Scanlon co-heads of fixed income.

Rather than select companies based on market capitalization, the indexes select listings by company size.

The tool lets retail investors see how their portfolio is performing against benchmarks and how much risk they have taken.

Independent financial advisors say that improving efficiency and time management is a goal for 2011, and carriers can help them achieve it.

The pressure on municipal bond mutual funds is fading rapidly as a much less panicked tone in the state and local government debt market has stemmed the exodus of cash from the industry.

With tax season upon us, most advisors are looking for ways to help clients maximize their tax savings. But with some converting to Roth IRAs, the folks at Allianz offered some cautions to help navigate rocky conditions.

“We’re at the epicenter of these two companies coming together,” says Laurie Krupa, who was named head of the banking unit of the Global Wealth & Investment Management operation late last year.

A new survey of high-net-worth investors with more than $2 million in investable assets found that most expect to at least triple their net worth in the next decade, a sure sign that the affluent expect the market's recent momentum to continue for the foreseeable future.

Bill Dwyer, the independent giant’s president of sales and national marketing, talks about his firm’s progress.

Russell Investments and Research Affiliates have launched a new index series based on Research Affiliates’ fundamental index methodology, whereby components of the index are selected by fundamental measures of company size rather than market capitalization.

To help financial advisors and firms jumpstart their social media endeavors without running afoul of FINRA regulations, LIMRA and social middleware firm Socialware this week rolled out "Insight: Advisor Series," a new social media training program specifically designed to help guide them through the potential legal and cultural landmines presented by social networking sites and platforms.

The stock market has been compensating small companies handsomely during the past three years, and may keep up the pace, but large caps have been lagging for the last decade.

Only 10% of Americans with $5 million to $25 million in investable assets described themselves as “very wealthy” in a recent survey by the Spectrem Group.