Practice management

JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon's scolding of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had broad support among bankers reeling from a re-defeat on the Durbin amendment and renewed anxieties about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. With "300 rules coming," as Dimon lamented, there are plenty of things for bankers to hate.

Successful advisory firms make intelligent, strategic choices in hiring, compensating and developing employees.

Gabriel Garcia, director at Pershing Advisor Solutions, a BNY Mellon company, spoke at the INSITE conference giving advice on how advisors can get more referrals from their existing client base.

The New England Patriots winning three Super Bowl trophies is not all about luck and talent. If businesses apply the same team principles, they too can have their share of winning seasons.

Hedge fund advisers who have registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission by July 21 have a lot more to worry about than simply filling out Form ADV.

SS&C Technologies said it launched a self-service portal for fund services, online.

Visa Inc. said its acquisition of the South African mobile payments company Fundamo will help it serve more underbanked consumers abroad. The San Francisco payments network said it would pay about $110 million for the Cape Town company.

With regulators struggling to decide which loans to excuse from risk-retention, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said Thursday the best option would have been to shelve the exemption altogether.

Customer relationship management software can be an advisor's best friend, but experts say most users still aren't getting everything they can out of it to grow their business.

Advisors still have trust hurdles to get over, but that also opens the door for new takeaway high net worth business.

TIAA-CREF is currently selecting advisors for its own network, which will launch over the next six months and go nationwide early next year.

A software tools company and a maker of high-performance servers said they set a new record in the speed of pricing options contracts.

Without admitting or denying the SEC’s charges, Wunderlich settled with the regulator for about $627,688 in penalties.

Even if they bite the bullet and stay on the job well past retirement age and late into their 70s, most Baby Boomers and the Gen-Xers who follow them will not have enough savings to cover their basic retirement expenses and out-of-pocket health costs.

Rule changes brought on by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act are expected to produce the most change in the way trading in contracts involving interest-rate commitments.

A new report from MetLife this week suggests that financial advisors need to do a better job of educating their clients about the importance of managing their emotions as well as their spending and investing behavior during and close to retirement just as they did -- presumably -- when they were younger and saving up for their golden years.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisors Matt Burton and John Cate to its Carmel, Ind. office.

Peter Drake, vice president of retirement and economic research at Fidelity Investments Canada, spoke of five retirement risks in a speech Monday at the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners’ annual conference in Ottawa.

State Street Corp. this week said it will roll out a new mobile application for executive-level portfolio and fund managers' iPads in the fall, giving clients real-time access to portfolio and risk exposure data on their beloved mobile devices.

A former employee pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to helping Bernie Madoff create false records for investors.