Practice

Software makers Geezeo and Access Softek are teaming to offer money management tools that banks can deliver to customers via smartphones and other mobile devices.

Within a decade, only about 150 large, profitable wealth management firms will dominate wealth management, according to a new forecast co-authored by Mark Hurley, chairman and CEO of the Fiduciary Network.

IMCA’s annual conference kicks off in Seattle on Monday with lessons for financial advisors from behavioral finance professor Meir Statman.

Merrill Lynch’s ultra high net worth business, the Private Banking and Investment Group, has snapped up two Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management advisors in Houston, Texas.

San Antonio-based USAA Investments, a provider of mutual funds and insurance products to members of the U.S. military, is currently prepping the USAA Target Retirement 2060 Fund to launch in July 2013.

Former Lazard Wealth Management executive Sharon Klein joined Wilmington Trust to build its growing practice in the New York metro area.

T. Rowe Price Group has no immediate plans to begin offering active exchange-traded funds, the Baltimore Business Journal reports.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new leader, Mary Jo White, will bring her years of experience as a federal litigator before the fund industry this week as its members try to judge whether she will propose reforms that could cripple the marketplace.

"Everything is bigger in Texas." That's certainly the case when the Raymond James and its 2013 national conference descended on Dallas, where thousands of advisors around the country gathered to learn best practices and swap ideas.

Americans are allocating a smaller share of their spending to investment-related fees since the recession, a sign they are still wary of returning to financial markets even as stocks trade near record highs.