Dan is a business journalist who previously worked for various local newspapers and industry publications. He also worked for two years in Beijing as an editor at China Daily. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, he has written about banking, local governments and the legal profession, among other subjects. He now covers how politics, policy and regulation affect the financial planning industry.
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The Apollo Group, a six-person team in New York, is the latest to show that former First Republic advisors are still not completely settled at JPMorgan.
By Dan ShawMarch 23 -
Federal Judge David Nye sides with a broker fired over five years ago for placing trades without first obtaining his client's permission.
By Dan ShawMarch 16 -
Penny Pennington has presided over a wide-ranging overhaul that has seen forays into alternative assets and banking but also heightened rates of advisor departures.
By Dan ShawMarch 16 -
Dynasty accuses Merrill of acting in distorting the court record in its attempt to force a dispute over a giant breakaway team before FINRA arbitrators.
By Dan ShawMarch 13 -
In a sternly written footnote, federal Judge Steven Merryday said the SEC's refusal to release information on its penalty calculations appears to "countenance duplicity, gamesmanship, neglect, insouciance" or worse.
By Dan ShawMarch 10 -
Rich Guerrini said the bank plans to expand its advisor ranks by about 50% as it targets mass affluent and other new clients with personalized branch-based service.
By Dan ShawFebruary 12 -
Financial Planning announces its 2026 class of the top 40 most productive employee wealth management brokers under the age of 40.
By Dan ShawFebruary 10 -
While the term "financial supermarket" may have gone out of fashion, firms still see opportunity to boost profits and keep clients loyal by blurring the lines between banking and wealth management.
By Dan ShawDecember 22 -
Bloomberg reports that Citi has enlisted a law firm to look into complaints about Andy Sieg's behavior to current and former colleagues, including former private banking head Ida Liu.
By Dan ShawAugust 20 -
An industry consultant thinks Edward Jones' latest bid to start a bank is an attempt to add revenue sources as the traditional brokerage business becomes less lucrative.
By Dan ShawApril 14 -
The hiring comes roughly a month after Ida Liu resigned and the firm embarked on a regional restructuring.
By Dan ShawFebruary 26 -
Citi's head of wealth said the firm is already working with a quarter of the billionaires in the world through its private bank. Now it just needs them to entrust it with managing more of their money.
By Dan ShawFebruary 12 -
The avalanche of cases announced Friday included charges against a no-longer registered advisor and firm accused of misappropriating more than $20 million from clients.
By Dan ShawJanuary 21 -
Whoever is named SEC chair by the president-elect is likely to take a lighter hand on crypto, AI and "regulation by enforcement."
By Dan ShawNovember 20 -
Nicholas Takahashi and his team are accused of deliberately trying to poach the clients of a former colleague managing hundreds of millions in assets and producing more than $1 million a year in revenue.
By Dan ShawNovember 15 -
The latest lawsuit accuses the firm of not only failing to look out for clients' best interests but also failing to secure "reasonable returns" on money held in retirement accounts.
By Dan ShawSeptember 25 -
The wealth management giants join their rivals Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, UBS, LPL Financial and Ameriprise in being accused of using uninvested cash in advisory accounts to boost their bottom lines rather than benefit clients.
By Dan ShawAugust 27 -
Regulators have been working their way steadily down from the biggest players in the industry to regional firms in their quest to stamp out abuses of "off-channel" communications.
By Dan ShawAugust 14 -
Researchers wonder if similar regulatory attention could eventually hit the bottom lines of independent broker-dealers and RIAs.
By Dan ShawAugust 6 -
Like its Wall Street rival Morgan Stanley, Citi sees a path to trillions in client assets in its workplace division.
By Dan ShawJune 12




















