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Startup Breakaway Bookkeeping & Advising is building a network of finance professionals to act as virtual CFOs for small-business clients.

The advisors are based in Florida, while the new executive will oversee the New York tri-state area.

Advisors who missed the “first-mover advantage” a decade ago could be in the catbird seat as all the rules change.

A class action asserts that the data aggregator accesses more of consumers' bank account information than it needs and ultimately aims to sell the data to others. Plaid, which has agreed to be sold to Visa, denies the allegations.

U.S. officials have raised questions about the security of TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.

With Treasury yields now hovering around zero, and likely to stay there for years, expected gains from the traditional asset mix are in doubt.

The manager joins firms including JPMorgan and Arena Investors in seeking opportunities in the sector, particularly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost 90% of smaller fund managers would no longer have to report their investments and their firms would save $136 million a year, the agency estimates.

Coronavirus-related distribution provisions can now be returned and there’s a larger pool of recipients eligible for relief. Here’s what advisors need to know

In a sign of long term changes and pivotal questions for the industry, the difference between the amount of fees and commissions in the sector has nearly doubled.

Funds that follow a similar approach lost 5.1% over the period, according to Hedge Fund Research.

Over the past 15 years, Black participation in the industry has stalled at a mere 8% — a figure that typically dwindles heading up the leadership ranks.

Advisor Antoine Souma, who leads the group, had been with the wirehouse for just four years.

The Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee called for a public credit reporting agency and for the Postal Service to offer financial services, among other proposals issued through a unity task force with Bernie Sanders. But analysts suggest the recommendations are more about electoral politics than pushing for real reforms.

Investment advice firms netted hundreds of millions of dollars. Here’s where they’re based, what lenders they turned to, and more.

The move would potentially set a bleak precedent for an industry that’s been resisting mass layoffs as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.

One recruit left an IBD to join the wirehouse.

They left Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo to join their new firm.

Mass exodus from the market has forced managers to dump securities to raise cash, sending prices tumbling the most in at least four decades.