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Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Comings & Goings Charles Schwab Corporation has named Walt Bettinger president and chief operating officer... UBS hired Greg Jones as head of diversity for UBS Wealth Management... etc.   |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings UBS hired away one of Merrill Lynch's largest producers in Arizona, Kenneth Fruehauf... Merrill Lynch has done some hiring of its own. Clark Durham... ING Financial Partners has notched Eric Rubin as its... etc. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Anywhere But Here No, you didn't want to be a financial advisor at Bear Stearns during the week of March 10. That was the week that news broke about Bear's serious liquidity problems, and the week it had to be bailed out. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
John Kador |
Schwab Does It Again Charles Schwab, the pioneering discount broker who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through protracted management struggles in the past two years, is beating the wirehouses at their own game. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
John Churchill |
TD Ameritrade Wins Luxury Brand Ranking Every brokerage firm is courting wealthy clients, and many of them say that serving the wealthy is what they do best. So just how are these firms doing? |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2009
Helen Kearney |
Big Name Boutiques Flex Their Muscles For those wirehouse advisors who want something new, but don't quite have the nerve to go independent, these elite boutiques look mighty attractive. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Snags Three Advisors From Rivals Smith Barney has started off the new year right with a recruiting victory. The firm recently hired three Merrill Lynch reps and one UBS advisor. |
Registered Rep.
April 5, 2006
John Churchill |
UBS Wins Prominent Black Rep From Smith Barney In what can be considered a coup of sorts for the firm, UBS hired a prominent black Smith Barney broker this past winter -- while it was under fire from a lawsuit brought by former brokers alleging a pattern and practice of racial discrimination. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Score One for Diversity UBS has hired a prominent black Smith Barney broker. |
Investment Advisor
May 2008
Kathleen M. McBride |
What Lurks Beneath There are many registered independent advisors and broker/dealers for whom the Bear Stearns debacle is much more than an academic exercise. |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
Institutional Unit Is Schwab's Bright Spot With the job cuts, branch closings and refocusing currently under way at Charles Schwab & Co., there's one area that seems to be safe. Schwab's Institutional unit isn't going anywhere. |
U.S. Banker
February 2002 |
What if Bank One Bought Bear Stearns? Sean Ryan, the former Bear Stearns bank stock analyst who now is an analyst at Fulcrum Global Partners, a securities brokerage firm, is reporting rumors that Bank One is considering buying Bear Stearns. This rumor probably is as baseless as most, but the idea may not be a bad one... |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2003
Will Leitch |
Report: Citi, CSFB to Slash Investment Banking Jobs The market is up, the economic indicators are positive and life is happy and good, right? Not at Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston. |
Registered Rep.
May 15, 2003
Ross Tucker |
Feeling the Flow Net asset flow figures among the nation's top firms indicate that Charles Schwab is leading in the race to add new assets. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004 |
Odds and Ends In September, confidence levels rose among advisors... UBS was recently named "High-Net-Worth Leader of the Year"... Boston-based Pioneer Investments has officially entered the separate accounts business... |
Registered Rep.
April 30, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Says It's Going On Offense -- As If It Weren't Already The company is preparing to go on the "offense" to gain market share -- both in terms of winning client assets and recruiting breakaway brokers. |
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2006
John Churchill |
Bear Stearns Fined $250 Million for Securities Fraud The SEC's investigation found that from 1999 through September 2003, the firm provided technology, advice and deceptive devices that helped market timers and late traders evade the firm's own systems as well as those of mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Should Schwab Shed Soundview? The discount broker is in talks with UBS to sell its capital markets division. |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Did Bear Stearns Soft-Pedal The Risks? Investors claim they were misled by Bear Stearns hedge funds' sales managers' assurances. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Bear Gets Mauled The financial services sector has been under pressure lately, but Bear has taken a bigger hit than average -- it's now down 18% since the beginning of the year. At this point, it looks like Bear may have a raft of hedge fund investor lawsuits to look forward to. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bear Stearns: Ouch! Many investors expected it to be a nasty quarter for investment bank Bear Stearns, and a nasty quarter is what they got. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Will Bear Stearns Receive a Rival Bid? Two days after JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 per share, BSC stock is trading for slightly more than $5 per share. How could this be? Because the market is factoring in the possibility of a rival offer from another bidder. |
Registered Rep.
November 14, 2003
Will Leitch |
Charles Schwab's Image Gets a Smudge In the wake of Friday morning's news that late-trading and market-timing had been occurring in one of Schwab's funds, through its U.S. Trust subsidiary, Schwab senior executives on Friday back-pedaled a bit from their assurance that the firm would not be implicated in mutual fund improprieties. |
National Real Estate Investor
March 3, 2003
Parke Chapman |
Bear Stearns to remain in Brooklyn Despite periodic threats to move thousands of its New York City employees out of the city, Bear Stearns has announced that it will renew its 300,000 sq. ft. lease at Brooklyn's Metro Tech Center for a 20-year term. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
James J. Green |
A President For Schwab Walt Bettinger, a longtime Schwab executive, has been named president and COO of the company, effective immediately, raising speculation that he will succeed founder Charles Schwab as CEO. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2010
Charles Paikert |
Schwab's Advisor Services Results Beg the Question: Has the Breakaway Brokerage Phenomenon Peaked? Has the great diaspora of breakaway brokers to Independence Land -- either independent b/ds or RIAs -- climaxed? |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Stretching for Good News at Bear Stearns Bear Sterns recently announced that it was ranked in Alpha's inaugural top equity trading firms survey. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
No Hibernating at Bear Stearns Investment banks have been hot. The run might not be over yet and Bear Stearns is a generally risk-averse company that still has some global expansion potential. Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep.
August 24, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Claims Make Their Way To Schwab The lawyers involved in a number of overtime cases against major wirehouse firms, including UBS and Merrill Lynch, filed a new one against Charles Schwab in July. |
Registered Rep.
November 25, 2008 |
Fido Poaches Schwab RIA Executive Fidelity Investments negotiates a contract with the former head of Schwab's advisor business. |
Investment Advisor
February 2007
James J. Green |
Schwab to Bankroll Breakaway Brokers With advisor assets at $500 billion, the custodian will offer financing to big brokers going independent. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011 |
Meredith Whitney on Her Bear Stearns Call Why the financial analyst who rocked Citigroup in 2007 froze up when it came to publicly predicting Bear Stearns's collapse. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2008 |
Who's News Staffing announcements from wirehouses, regionals and private banks. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Robert F. Keane |
Changes at the Top for RIA Units at Fidelity and Schwab At a time when growth in the RIA channel has been robust to say the least, the two largest custodians have announced executive changes and restructuring of their units serving RIAs. |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2008
Brooke Southall |
Schwab Re-Org Combines RIAs With Retirement Biz Schwab Institutional had an awesome year in 2008, but it isn't resting on it's laurels. Schwab is reorganizing, removing a well-respected executive, and combining the RIA unit with the retirement and corporate services unit. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Credit Crunch Cuts Down Bear Stearns Bear Stearns sells itself to avoid filing for bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
How to Fix Schwab A former employee offers advice on how to fix the former financial powerhouse. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Schwab's De-diversification Process The company's foray into diversification has mostly been a failure. Now, it's time to unwind the acquisitions. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2004
John Churchill |
Schwab to Cut Costs The nation's largest discount brokerage firm, Charles Schwab & Co., is cutting 19 retail branches in favor of smaller, one- or two-broker boutiques, a move the company says will cut costs and more effectively serve clients. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008 |
Roids: Not Just For Baseball Bear Stearns attempted to impose a temporary restraining order on departed broker Doug Sharon. Sharon left for Morgan Stanley on March 17 -- the day after J.P. Morgan made a deal to buy the embattled Bear Stearns. Bear's TRO was rejected by a Massachusetts court. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Schwab Cuts Costs for Its Advisors Charles Schwab Advisor Services announced a series of moves that will have the net effect of reducing costs to the RIAs that custody with Schwab. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Don't Let Bear Stearns' Price Fool You Since news of Bear Stearns' deal with JPMorgan shares have been trading higher than the proposed $2 price. Why? |
Registered Rep.
May 21, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Schwab Institutional President "Retires" Deborah McWhinney, president of Schwab Institutional, retired this morning at the age of 52, something communicated to the firm's advisors and employees via e-mail. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
You're Being Taken to the Cleaners You and I are subsidizing the risks that JPMorgan and Bear Stearns are taking, and their shareholders and managers are receiving the rewards. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Reinventing Schwab Though Charles Schwab is still the nation's largest discount broker, competition and a changing landscape have forced it to evolve. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Lee & Young |
Is Schwab's Latest Come-On Enough? Brokerage firm Charles Schwab & Co. is slashing commissions in a bid to win over the high-net-worth clients it so badly needs. |
Registered Rep.
August 4, 2008
Nancy N. DiCostanzo |
The Bear Talks The first book about the demise of Bear Stearns, titled Bear Trap, is to be published in September by Brick Tower Books and has been co-authored by an anonymous former Bear exec. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2003
Will Leitch |
Schwab's Happy Conference The yearly IMPACT conference hosted by the proudly scandal-free Charles Schwab & Co. carried this message: Whatever's going on out there doesn't concern us. We need to worry about ourselves. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Chris Hill |
Fool Video: After Bear Stearns, Who's Next? Bear market stocks and who will be the next Bear Stearns are discussed in this video. |
