Sun Life Financial Inc. president Jon A.

The TCW Group Inc. announced late today it is purchasing Metropolitan West Asset Management LLC. TCW has about $110 billion in assets under management, and MetWest Asset has approximately $30 billion in assets under management

How to Value the DWT Price of Gold Jewelry and Dental Scrap Karen Proctor To find the scrap gold price per pennyweight of gold jewelry or dental gold scrap one intends to sell to a pawn shop, jeweller, or other scrap gold buyer, and to determine the value of the scrap gold based on gold’s current spot price, follow these easy steps. The calculation method described here is for one piece or lot of scrap gold of the same karat measurement. Note that the abbreviation dwt stands for pennyweight in the instructions below

Cisco survey finds nation’s businesses probably unprepared for working remotely in times of disaster A survey of 502 IT professionals in the health care, retail, finance, government and education sectors contains some results that should be of interest to many financial advisers. Chief among the findings: Most organizations are not ready to support all or even a majority of their employees remotely in the wake of a disaster or other major disruption. The survey found that 53% of respondents reported that less than half their employees are currently set up to work remotely, and 21% said that they have no employees enabled to work remotely.

A prominent wirehouse rep and his Hawaii-based team — who rather suddenly left Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in September — have formed a new advisory firm

SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro’s comments on Thursday that all financial advisers who provide personalized advice should come under “meaningful” fiduciary standards has drawn heat from a group representing state securities regulators. Speaking at a press conference in Washington, Denise Voigt Crawford, president of the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc., questioned how stringent such a standard would be. “Everybody is saying that they believe in one standard, and everybody is saying that they believe that it should be a fiduciary standard,” said Ms.

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