Regional banks

Wealth managers are still struggling to create a full-service family office practice on a mass scale primarily because most advisors still aren't taking the entire family into consideration. Here are some ideas that can help.

An influx of assets and advisors have given a much needed boost to smaller, independent advisors.

Given the stagnant revenue growth that even the strongest regionals reported in the first quarter, there is no indication that Synovus has missed out on much.

On a nationwide basis, unemployment and jobless-claims data have slowly improved. But the metrics vary widely from market to market and, complicating matters, many bank operations, even those of regionals, straddle strong and weak markets.