by Patrick M. Kelly | Mar 18, 2013 | Financial Services Industry
Congress is preparing to cut the budgets of the SEC and the CFTC at a time when their roles as financial regulators are expanding. Just this week, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 5% cut in the budgets for the remainder of the year. The House passed the...
by Patrick M. Kelly | Mar 14, 2013 | Financial Recruiting Industry
OnWallStreet.com ‘s Annual Recruiter’s Roundtable video is available below. Emphasis is on the key trends for recruiting in 2013. Bill Willis, President and CEO of Willis Consulting Inc is one of the eight members of this prestigious group and frequently writes...
by Patrick M. Kelly | Mar 8, 2013 | Financial Recruiting Industry
FinancialAdvisor-mag,com ran an interesting article by Gregory Bresiger this week based on a Friday morning roundtable sponsored by Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services, which sells RIA, custody and clearing services to reps and firms that are independent or...
by Patrick M. Kelly | Mar 5, 2013 | Financial Services Industry
As the economic outlook improves, grid payouts show stability and new incentives are being added to induce financial advisors to strive for more growth. As the four wirehouses unveiled their compensation plans for 2013, the changes all seemed to have one thing in...
by Patrick M. Kelly | Feb 28, 2013 | RIA
Registered investment advisors with clients wanting to hold actual gold, silver, platinum or palladium in their own name can now help their clients directly by tapping into GBI Advisors (GBIA), a system billed as the first online platform that lets RIA’s store...
