Compliance

Security and business continuity concerns must be addressed in service agreements when outsourcing tech operations to a third party.

Analysis: The case of the one-time billion-dollar advisor who was barred from the industry gives cause for wealth managers to make sure they are within the bounds of the rules.

As long as a nonprofit group stays "on the right side of the line -- even though either you or I would say what they are doing is wrong -- it's still protected by 'judgment,'" or a right to broad discretion in decision-making.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is starting two money market funds and making changes to two others to comply with stricter rules for funds that offer a stable $1 net asset value.

Thomas J. Buck, an ex-Merrill Lynch and RBC advisor who once oversaw $1.2B in client assets, consented to FINRA findings that he "willfully committed fraud."

While many public corporations are focused on engaging the threat of activist shareholders, asset managers still wrestle with reaching the larger percentage of fund shareholders who may pay scant attention to the prospectuses, proxies and reports that cost firms thousands of dollars to produce.

Bond dealers are standardizing methods for analyzing fixed-income exchange-traded funds as they seek to boost trading.

The firm pursued the advisor for a bonus clawback while the advisor in turn sought damages for alleged discrimination and breach of good faith.

Comparing its authority to that of sororities, country clubs and other trade organizations, the CFP Board convinced a federal judge to throw out planners' fee only lawsuit.

Why timing is important for clients filing for Social Security; Plus, how to decide whether your client should invest in a 401(k) or a Roth IRA.

Asset management industry critics of the Department of Labor's fiduciary initiative issued a torrent of comments blasting the proposed regulation as costly, unworkable and harmful to low- and middle-income investors.

A New York-based hedge fund manager traveled to Tehran to do scouting work. During a 10-day trip, he liked much of what he saw.

Advisors' use of social media is on the rise. Here's how you can be both social and compliant.

For the third time in the past year, the wirehouse discharged a long-time advisor with a big book of business, this time alleging "inappropriate workplace behavior."

The firm reported solid growth and record advisor productivity in its wealth management business.

Though the industry reaped 34% profit margins and global AUM rose 10.5% to $67 trillion in 2014, revenues rose only 6.3% to $319 billion, while fees dropped an average 40 basis points.

Critics charge that the fiduciary proposal will be a death knell for the brokerage model in the retirement space, leaving low- and middle-income investors without advice.

While most people in the retirement industry agree that the Department of Labor has its heart in the right place in wanting to protect individuals from conflicts of interest, many don’t believe the agency has gone about its rule-making in the right way.

Digital-first firms gravitate toward a blogging website that has aired several heated industry debates, a markedly different approach from the cautious way traditional firms present themselves online.

The advisor agreed to a lifetime bar from the industry after a hacker who impersonated a client persuaded him to illegally transfer $160,000 of client funds.