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The Party's Over

May 9, 2008 11:34 AM, By Nancy N. DiCostanzo

Thursday was no fun for G. Kennedy Thompson, as the board decided it was time for him to step down as chairman at Wachovia. However, he hasn't been voted off the island just yet. ...

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

May 9, 2008 10:39 AM, By Nancy N. DiCostanzo

Despite calls by numerous shareholders to break up Citigroup and spin off poorly performing businesses, it looks like CEO Vikram Pandit will be taking his cues from Al Green today: Let’s stay together. As reported by the New York Post, today's analyst and investor meeting will not involve Pandit announcing plans to dump Citigroup's integrated bank model....

UBS Needs A Lift Ticket

May 8, 2008 3:09 PM, By Nancy N. DiCostanzo

The New York Post reported today that UBS is facing serious scrutiny by the SEC and the DOJ to determine whether or not the bank aided clients in committing tax evasion from 2000 to 2007. Maybe Wesley Snipes was a client?...

LPL Financial Heats Up The RIA World

May 5, 2008 8:00 AM, By Halah Touryalai

Charles Schwab, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade and Pershing will soon have a new and powerful rival to worry about, while the hybrid broker/independent RIA model should get a major boost. The largest independent b/d in the U.S., LPL Financial, announced today it’s going to launch an RIA custodian later this year, which will serve both hybrid and fee-only investment advisors who operate independent RIAs. LPL currently has about 12,000 Series-7 advisors under its massive b/d umbrella....

Banc Of America Dishes Out $10 Million For Fiduciary Violations

May 1, 2008 4:50 PM, By Halah Touryalai

Bank of America Corp. just got about $10 million poorer. Its broker/dealer, Banc of America Investment Services Inc., settled charges today that it failed to disclose that it favored mutual funds affiliated with the firm. ...

FINRA Fines American Funds

Apr 30, 2008 4:08 PM, By David A. Geracioti

Every rep loves American Funds: The fund family—the nation’s largest, with $1 trillion in assets—offers decent performance for relatively inexpensive fees. ...

Citi Hedge Fund Blow Up Hurts Clients—And Sends Advisors Packing

Apr 29, 2008 5:48 PM, By John Churchill

While Smith Barney tries its darnedest to hold on to the money of wealthy clients that were invested in two of the firms’ failing hedge funds (subscription required), it’s also having a hard time keeping some of its best brokers. With all the uncertainties and troubles facing Citi, the firm’s prized retail brokerage operation has become a favored target of recruiters, say recruiters. ...

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Wealth Management

What The Wealthy Think Of Your Firm

May 7, 2008 12:02 PM, By John Churchill

Equal-Weighted Indexing Wins Over the Long Haul

Apr 30, 2008 2:40 PM, By Kristen French

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Storming-Norming

May 1, 2008 8:50 AM, By Matt Oechsli

TIC Directory

Capital Crunch Squeezes TIC Industry

Oct 19, 2007 11:18 AM, By Beth Mattson-Teig

Many users of the popular tenant-in-common (TIC) investment vehicle in commercial real estate are hoping they have the stamina to withstand a double blow ...

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A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY

May 1, 2008

Are closed-end fund preferred-auction securities safe? We consider CFPs to be the conservative's conservative security. Defaults are even rarer than failed...

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