Fifth Third Securities Increases its Sales Team

Fifth Third Securities has been aggressively recruiting candidates for its investment sales team. They just hired a sales person to run the eastern territory and a sales manager for Tennessee and Georgia. Howard Hammond became president four years ago and is primarily responsible for this move towards advisor driven investing. Before Hammond, its primary focus [...]

Do Top Brokers And Traders Receive Astronomical Pay?

Pay Czar Feinberg thinks so, and is moving forward to take a look at 104 top executives beneath the CEO’s and their payouts during the financial crisis – all within companies and financial firms who received TARP funds. The Management Executive Committees of the firms have claimed the necessity to provided large payouts and retention [...]