Industry News
Industry News
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Top items include the fallout of a massive continuing education cheating scheme, UBS' pay cuts for producers across the organization and more.
December 5 -
Even though Citizens lost its bid to acquire First Republic in 2023, it has recruited frequently from the now-defunct regional bank.
December 5 -
The recruits, formerly managing $885 million at their previous firms, are expected to push Concurrent's asset total to $9.7 billion.
December 5 -
Paul Atkins has a long history of criticizing industry watchdogs for what he considers regulatory overreach and is expected to take a light hand with the crypto industry.
December 4 -
Net income in the firm's U.S. wealth business revives following losses related to its City National subsidiary a year ago.
December 4 -
The founders of HPS will lead a new private financing business unit in BlackRock.
December 3 -
We've added up-and-coming social media platforms to our offerings to connect with a larger audience of financial advisors and wealth managers.
December 2 -
Oden, head of U.S. wealth, private banking, asset management and premier banking at HSBC, was one of the first in the industry to build an online wealth management platform.
November 28 -
The Texas AG leads a lawsuit against BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, alleging asset managers' influence on coal production led to higher energy prices.
November 27 -
Starting next year, all of its existing RIA non-retirement clients' cash balances will be moved from higher-yield money market funds to FCASH — a lower-yield cash management product.
November 26 -
The largest fee-only RIAs expanded rapidly in the past year, but a new No. 1 led a group including Savant, Moneta, EP Wealth, Modera and The Mather Group.
November 26 -
Former Western Asset Management co-Chief Investment Officer Ken Leech was charged with engaging in an alleged "cherry-picking" trading scheme.
November 25 -
Compliance experts think the costs of going along with a sweeping investigation are ignored by regulators touting the benefits of cooperation.
November 25 -
With the second presidency of digital-asset booster Donald Trump approaching, executives and lawyers involved with ETFs say they are ginning up strategies to cater to all tastes.
November 25 -
Fifth Third Bank also draws a big team from Truist, and Morgan Stanley from Merrill.
November 22 -
Schwab currently offers crypto-linked exchange-traded funds and crypto futures.
November 22 -
UBS is reducing pay substantially for sub-$750K producers and making smaller reductions for advisors on the higher end of the scale.
November 21 -
Brendan Krebs moved into the top recruiting role in January with a pledge to bring in advisors for Wells' wirehouse, bank-based and independent channels.
November 21 -
The SEC Chair oversaw a sweeping rulemaking agenda that drew resistance from many advisory and brokerage industry representatives.
November 21 -
Whoever is named SEC chair by the president-elect is likely to take a lighter hand on crypto, AI and "regulation by enforcement."
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