Tag: Broker/Dealers

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has enhanced and renamed its small business retirement plan platform, MLConnect, to” more closely align with small business owners’ evolving challenges and priorities.”

linkedFA, a social networking service for financial professionals, has partnered with LiveOffice to enable preapproval and archiving of social media posts and RSS feeds.

About one in 10 brokers reported that they are very unsatisfied with their firms, according to a new survey.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s Consulting Group has named Marc J. Brookman as director of Sales and Thomas Butler as head of Products and Platform Development.

Advisers affiliated with Commonwealth Financial Network can now use widgets to customize their own version of COMMunity Link, Commonwealth’s adviser Web portal.

Chris Van Aeken will head International Wealth Management Products and Services at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the company announced.

Wells Fargo & Co.’s Wealth Brokerage and Retirement Group saw increasing revenues driven by growth in asset-based fees and brokerage transactions, the firm said.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney reported an influx of assets and advisers in the first quarter.

Even with clarity from FINRA, broker/dealers have yet to christen social networking.

Wirehouse firms still lead the market share in the wealth management industry, but independent and regional broker/dealers are catching up, a new report found.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) will pay $13.5 million to the federal government to settle charges it made improper payments to a San Diego-based insurance broker.

Although Merrill Lynch saw sinking revenue and profits, the brokerage unit is helping to keep Bank of America (BofA) in the black. 

Fund managers are taking on more risk in anticipation of a “Goldilocks” recovery in the economy, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for April.

linkedFA, a social networking site for financial professionals, said it now offers a feature to satisfy compliance concerns of brokerage and wirehouse firms.

Retirement Plan Advisory Group (RPAG), an alliance of retirement plan advisers, said Gabriel Kass has joined its investment team as an investment analyst, specializing in fixed-income investments.

Bank of America (BofA) said it will enter into human resources partnerships with Hewitt Associates and Plateau Systems, beginning in 2011.

Three female financial advisers have filed a lawsuit charging gender discrimination at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

National Financial said it has made enhancements to its online service technology resources to help brokers and advisers better initiate and manage service requests.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a distribution of nearly $185 million to more than 800 mutual funds that were affected by illegal market timing by...

A new service called 401(k) Rekon aggregates and lists resources offered to financial advisers by 401(k) plan providers.