02/14/2019

Progeny buys 2 more Financial Planning firms

The latest acquisitions, as well as the recent acquisition of Innovate Financial Planning in Edinburgh, will see Progeny’s national headcount double and increase the group’s assets under advice, now well over £1bn.

02/12/2019

Manulife Financial Q4 Earnings: Is a Beat in Store?

The fourth quarter should benefit from Manulife’s expanded distribution network across the region as well as strengthening of strategically important distribution agreements with key partners in Japan and Indonesia.

02/12/2019

UBS Forming Business to Service Independent Advisors

The decision of a conventional retail brokerage firm to expand from its core business of selling investment products through a captive brokerage force signifies the attractiveness of the independent advisory model to many advisers with large practices

02/11/2019

How Venezuela turns its useless bank notes into gold

Paid with the country’s near-worthless bank notes, these amateurs in turn supply the government with hard currency to purchase badly needed imports of food and hygiene products. This gold trade is a blip on international markets.