To keep your spare cash growing, consider placing it in a high-yield savings account or investing in securities with strong return potential. Letting your money sit idle is a missed opportunity to ...

When interest rates started to rise a couple of years ago, it was a bonanza for wealth management firms, which could make extra interest off client money parked in short-term overnight bank accounts.

Coming on the heels of the share class initiative, 1 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is at the initial stages of another initiative involving concerns about adviser disclosures and ...

Very few wealth management firms are willing to engage with questions about their cash sweep programs, even though they represent about $1 trillion in client holdings across the industry. Two experts ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has formally concluded its investigation into Morgan Stanley’s advisory cash sweep program without pursuing any enforcement action, according to a regulatory ...

It will be a red flag for regulators if an advisor is charging a fee that is higher than what a client is earning in sweep accounts, Max Mejiborsky, VP of Compliance Services at COMPLY said.

To keep your spare cash growing, consider placing it in a high-yield savings account or investing in securities with strong return potential. Letting your money sit idle is a missed opportunity to ...

The SEC is looking into Morgan Stanley’s cash sweep programs, according to the regulatory report the wirehouse filed Monday with the regulator. The firm’s quarterly filing states that it has been ...

You might not think about the idle cash in your brokerage account very often. But behind the scenes, your money may be earning your brokerage company a lot more interest than it is earning you. Cash ...

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