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• BNY Mellon Launches Family Wealth Team

  January 27, 2012

  The firm promoted Kevin Rogers to managing director and family wealth advisor to head up the specialty team.

• Bob Oros Jumps to Fidelity as New Executive VP of RIA Sales

  January 27, 2012

  Just a few days after Bob Oros left Trust Company of America as national sales manager, Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services has confirmed he will start next week as executive vice president of RIA sales and relationship management.

• Working With an Advisor Changes Americans’ Retirement Outlook

  January 27, 2012

  Retirement can be daunting — but having sound financial advice makes Americans feel like they have a better handle on it, according to a survey by Franklin Templeton.

• Top 10 Traits Firms Want From New Advisor Hires

  January 27, 2012

  Financial planning, when it’s done right, requires a lot of different skill sets. So what exactly are firms looking for when it’s time to bring someone new aboard? Here's what the people who actually make the personnel decisions had to say.

• Independent B-D National Planning Hires Two Recruiters

  January 26, 2012

  National Planning Corporation has expanded its new business development team by hiring two new full-time recruiters, doubling the size of the recruiting team at the independent broker-dealer.

• Retirement Plan Participants Seek Direction from Employers: Study

  January 26, 2012

  Participants in defined contribution retirement plans want direction—and even prompts—from their employers when it comes to saving for retirement. That’s one of the findings from a survey by State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corp.

• 'Offshore Shams' Abet Mutual Fund Speculation in Commodities: Senator

  January 26, 2012

  The head of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations called for an end to private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service which have “essentially opened the floodgates” for mutual funds to speculate in commodities from offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands.

• Going Postal: Turning USPS Woes Into an Investment Opportunity

  January 26, 2012

  Advisors don’t only have to bemoan the U.S. Postal Service’s decline — there are ways to profit from it. It’s worth at least considering an investment in ETFs that have exposure to companies like FedEx and UPS, according to an analysis by S&P Capital IQ.

• Two Southern RIA Firms Join Forces

  January 26, 2012

  The acquisition of Birmingham, Ala.-based Chitwood Advisory Group marks Atlanta Capital’s second wealth management acquisition since June 2011.

• Morgan Stanley Smith Barney: We Expect U.S. Recession, Too

  January 26, 2012

  The Global Investment Committee of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney said in its January 2012 market commentary that it expects not just Europe, but the United States, to slip into recession.

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