June 05, 2010 Harmonization and fiduciary are top talking points for ‘Financial Services Reform: The Next Steps’Harmonization and fiduciary are top talking points for ‘Financial Services Reform: The Next Steps’.... June 04, 2010 Stocks tumbled Friday, June 4, after the Labor Department said hiring remained weak, and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis.Stocks tumbled Friday, June 4, after the Labor Department said hiring remained weak, and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis.... March 23, 2010 Nearly 18 months after the economic crisis erupted, SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar, in a speech before the 2010 Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference on March 15... March 01, 2009 When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September of 2008, the Reserve Primary Money Market fund announced that its price per share had dropped below $1.00. ... December 31, 2008 As we close the books on a tumultuous year, it’s hard to predict what lies ahead. A new president, changing economic conditions, major industry evolution—the list goes on. It’s safe to say, however, t... November 30, 2008 Perhaps there’s some logic to an overwhelming focus on what’s just passed. But the bias recalls Santayana’s dictum about the dangers of ignoring history as a shortcut for repeating yesteryear’s mistak... October 31, 2008 In 1975, the SEC deregulated brokerage commissions and set the stage for Charles Schwab & Co. to create the discount brokerage business model. By unbundling the sale of advice from execution, Schwab f... October 31, 2008 The value of independent financial advice and the importance of the independent advisory channel have never been more apparent. Recent events in the financial markets have cut the American financial p... September 30, 2008 Asset price bubbles build and burst today much as they have since modern capital markets emerged some 300 years ago. As such, capital markets are often tumultuous and unpredictable. Contributing to th... August 31, 2008 M&A for RIA firms is alive and robustly healthy, says investment banker Harman “Jet” Wales, managing partner at Moss Adams Capital LLC in Seattle. Although buyers are now focusing on smaller firms sin... June 30, 2008 Commodities have come a long way from the 1980s and 1990s when commodity markets were considered the Wild West, populated by cowboy commodity traders who could not–or would not–embrace the concept of ... May 31, 2008 The first edition of IMCA’s Chartered Private Wealth Advisor designation program was so successful that the sequel is already sold out! After an intense week of classes at the University of Chicago Gr... March 31, 2008 What follows is an alphabetical listing of 50 distinguished women in wealth management. It is not merely a list of who has the most assets under management or who has the highest production numbers. S... January 31, 2008 Your Silver Bullet aims to be the “euro” of advisory software by creating a kind of common denominator that eases the way for different software packages to work together and promotes integration wit... December 31, 2007 “Exploratory meetings” are underway between the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Financial Planning Association and National Association of Personal Financial Advisors to establish “app... October 31, 2007 The first time I ever connected online from outside an office was in a small hotel in Bermuda. This happened around 1999, and it wasn’t easy then. Few places had broadband—it was all dial-up. There wa... April 30, 2007 Think of it as the bible of your practice, not merely a routine operations manual that spells out office policies, vacations, HR rules and whose turn it is to make the coffee. A true best practices ma... April 30, 2007 It seems as if there has been a lot of negativity swirling around the concept of “fiduciary” lately, with advisors from many different camps speaking out with great emotion (“Fiduciary Facts,” March 2... November 30, 2005 With so much discussion revolving around retirement financing in the United States, global bank HSBC took a look at some retirement issues around the world. Specifically, it compiled the figures on sp... November 30, 2005 What are Boomers really thinking, and how does it differ from what their parents think? That’s what Allianz Life tried to find out in a study conducted by Harris Interactive. Some of the results were ... November 30, 2005 The Rydex Advisor Confidence Index plummeted in September, after rising for four months, to 112.78, from 123.97. Many advisors who participated in the survey cited Hurricane Katrina and increased ener... August 22, 2005 YOU CAN TELL A GENERATION by how it listened to music: radios in wood cabinets gave way to Bakelite models, then came small transistors, the huge disco-era Boom Boxes, the Sony Walkman, and most recen... August 22, 2005 IF YOU HAVE THE TIME and patience, you can find out a great deal about your Boomer clients, absolutely free, courtesy of the government. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov) -one of the most u... August 22, 2005 Your colleagues are deeply unhappy, according to the Rydex Advisor Confidence Index. Launched in March 2004, the index averages the sentiments of 150 independent registered investment advisors. Neutra... August 22, 2005 THE CLIENT PROBLEM was as much organizational as financial, according to Chad L. Starliper, CFP, ChFC, of Rather & Kittrell Capital Management in Knoxville, Tenn. The new client was a successful busin... August 22, 2005 IN THE DOT-COM HEYDAY, companies were making even 30-somethings feel old. If you were old enough to buy a drink, you "just didn't get it." Fortunately, that attitude disappeared some time before Time ... August 22, 2005 IN HEALTH-CONSCIOUS circles, it is fashionable to claim to be on a low-carb diet, just as in financial circles, it is fashionable to blame the low-carb diet for the poor performance of Krispy Kreme. B... August 22, 2005 For the cost of refurbishing a bathroom in much of California, you can get a whole house in North Dakota. This map shows the most and least expensive places to live in the United States, using 2004 a... |
|
|