Tag: Broker/Dealers

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released twin recommendations advising Congress to align adviser and broker/dealer fiduciary standards and exact “user fees” from SEC-registered advisers.

The 401(k) market’s annual growth rate is holding at 9% and could push total assets beyond $4.2 trillion next year, a report from Ignites Retirement Research shows.

Mutual of Omaha’s retirement plans division has added LPL Financial’s retirement advice and education solutions to its 401(k) products.

Vanguard announced intentions to streamline its investment offerings by merging five funds that have similar objectives and investment strategies.

Charles Schwab added 16 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to the Schwab ETF OneSource platform, bringing the total number of ETFs available through the platform to 121.

Harmonization of rules for broker/dealers and RIAs could more than double compliance costs for independent RIAs in the first year of implementation—with little benefit to clients, a survey...

Fred Reish, a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath, the Los Angeles law firm, has launched fredreish.com, a blog about retirement regulation and compliance.

Drew Brahos and Bruce Wetter joined Bank of the West's Investment Advisory and Management team in the Wealth Management Group.

SunAmerica Financial Group Inc. agreed to acquire Woodbury Financial Services Inc., a brokerage unit of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

The Newport Group released a managed account service for advisers.

In her new role, Kate Healy is in charge of increasing the firm's awareness among 4,000 registered investment advisers (RIAs). 

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division promoted Niel Cabrera to sales director covering the Southeast region, effective July 1.  

PENSCO launched PENSCO SuccessorCustodian.

ING U.S. hired Rich Linton as president of Individual Markets.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with alliance partner FASCore, launched an offering to provide recordkeeping solutions to the small to midsize retirement plan market. 

Morningstar launched Annuity Intelligence, which evaluates variable annuities and gives data on more than 100,000 annuity subaccounts and 1,950 annuity contracts.

Cambridge Investment Research Inc. selected Fiduciary Benchmarks to meet ERISA’s 408(b)2 disclosure regulations, slated to go into effect July 1.  

National Financial Partners Corp. (NFP), a provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services, said Friday it had begun implementing a management succession plan. 

Study finds high-net-worth investors confident in advisers, who are also "bullish" about market.  

Vestmark announced the introduction of comprehensive compliance solutions for fee-based accounts within its unified wealth management platform, VestmarkONE.