Margarida Correia

The Minneapolis company's addition of Karen Wimbish, a former Wells Fargo executive, to oversee wealth management products is one of several moves by U.S. Bancorp as it builds up its investment-advisory services.

BancPlus in Ridgeland, Miss., has hired two Morgan Stanley financial advisers to lead its new wealth-management unit.

Investment program managers say the trend is working out well for them.

WAXHAW, N.C. — Advisors in credit unions are bringing in the dough.

WAXHAW, N.C. — Credit union advisors are stretched too thin.

WAXHAW, N.C. — Americans trust their credit unions but are less inclined to trust their credit union advisors. That's one of the key findings of a new study from Kehrer Saltzman & Associates.

WAXHAW, N.C. — Americans trust their credit unions but are less inclined to trust their credit union advisors. That's one of the key findings of a recent study from Kehrer Saltzman & Associates.

U.S. Bancorp Investments, the brokerage affiliate of U.S. Bank, is reaping the benefits of a major makeover that began soon after William Benjamin joined the firm as its CEO almost five years ago.

Banks and credit unions averaged a mere 2,000 followers and tweeted an average of four times a day. More than one in five (21%) were characterized as "Twitter quitters" for abandoning their Twitter accounts.