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Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice.   |
Financial Advisor
October 2004
Tracey Longo |
Investing For Retirement Investing for retirement is feeling pretty dicey. That has investors looking for all the advice they can find. Here's what financial advisors are saying. |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Tracey Longo |
Symposium Roundup The 2nd Annual Financial Advisor Symposium showed how to transform your practice to meet retiring boomers' needs. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Evan Simonoff |
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns. |
Financial Advisor
December 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial advisory industry: Will there be a run on hedge funds?... "Inside Commodities" conference... Schwab is top RIA segment... Pension tension... |
Financial Advisor
September 2004 |
Frontline News Schwab Announces Portfolio Center (Centerpiece) Pricing... NAPFA Starts Site For Selling Practices... FPA Challenges Broker-Dealer Exemption... Armstrong Named Fain Award Recipient... Schwab Transitions Retains Valuation Firm... etc. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Nest Eggs in Multiple Baskets Increasingly, employers have begun offering life cycle funds, which include broad mixes of stocks and bonds. By picking one life cycle choice, an investor can hold a nicely diversified 401(k) portfolio. |
Financial Advisor
March 2004 |
Frontline News Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt stunned attendees at TD Waterhouse's annual conference in Orlando in early February when, in response to a question, he indicated he was opposed to a proposed rule that would grant exemption from registered investment advisor registration for wirehouse brokers. |
Investment Advisor
May 2007 |
The IA 25 This year's list of the 25 most influential individuals in and around the planning profession: Mary Shapiro... Rudy Adolf... Robert Arnott... Mark Tibergien... etc. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Foundation for Retirement Foundations and endowments can teach advisors strategies for constructing and maintaining retirement income portfolios. Here's a look at how. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011 |
Frontline News F.A. Confidential... Fears Of Muni Meltdown Are Overblown... B-Ds, RIAs Ready To Boost Hiring... Schwab To Sell Independent Franchises... etc. |
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Lavine & Liberman |
Uncertain Future The Fidelity Executive Forum raises issues about where the money management industry is headed. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Eric L. Reiner |
Hedging Your Bets Richard Lee Jr. presides over the 50-person Dallas advisory Lee Financial Corp. A private placement fund of hedge funds that Richard Lee Jr. uses for clients returned nearly 20% last year. |
Financial Advisor
November 2007
William Glasgall |
Income For Life? Well, We Hope So. A look at new products that are supposed to create "personal pensions" for your clients: Dividends Galore With ETFs... Mutual Funds Aim For Payouts... Advisors Warm To Immediate Annuities... etc. |
Financial Advisor
March 2006
Marla Brill |
Courting A New Crowd Rydex Investments hopes to move beyond market timers to mainstream financial advisors. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2012
Amanda B. Kish |
Why Advisors Are Wrong Again Financial advisors are shying away from stocks at the wrong time. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
From Complexity to Simplicity And Back Using plain-vanilla mutual funds, retail advisors can build low-correlating portfolios, like absolute-return portfolios. In fact, the sophisticated financial advisor is performing like a mini-institutional consultant of yore. |
Financial Advisor
January 2007
Marla Brill |
Simple Solutions? Life cycle funds are expanding beyond the 401(k) market to financial advisors. Advisors considering using target date funds, whether on a limited or for a broad swath of clients, need to consider a number of features. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Pamela J. Black |
How to Be a Retirement Planning Hero Fixing a client's retirement plan (to the extent possible) may be the best opportunity brokers have today to create new business. |
Financial Advisor
April 2004
Raymond Fazzi |
Conservatism Rules In Retirement Planning After a traumatic four years marked by a recession, a war on terrorism and a market decline, many advisors are rethinking their retirement planning strategies. |
Financial Advisor
January 2004
Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers. |
Financial Advisor
April 2010
Jeff Schlegel |
An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
David A. Twibell |
Hedge Your Bets During these troubling times, how can advisors help clients protect their investment portfolios? There are a number of viable strategies. |
Financial Advisor
November 2010
Alan Lavine |
New Opportunities With 401(k)s Participants are making asset allocation mistakes, even though most plans offer a good selection of investment options. |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
Thomas M. Kostigen |
Discrimination, Or Keeping It Simple? Schwab boots funds that have cheaper share classes elsewhere. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Dave Tsujimoto |
In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds. |
Financial Advisor
October 2011
Juliette Fairley |
Staying Afloat Hedged equity mutual funds provide protection against downside risk, but they are costly. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Retirement Income: The New Solutions The boomer retirement wave is here, and so are new products designed to turn their hoarded assets into cash flow. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Sydney LeBlanc |
Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2009 The long-term outlook is brighter than the current vista. Markets have always turned up after downturns and there's no reason to think this pattern will end. |
Investment Advisor
November 2006 |
Now and Then When it comes to plowing through the complexities that are associated with retirement planning, advisors need all the help they can get. Fidelity looks ahead to dominate retirement planning now. |
Financial Advisor
January 2005
Raymond Fazzi |
Flying Blind In The Bond Market Bond price reporting is improving, but many brokers still hide costs. |
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Karen DeMasters |
Substituting For Stable Value Funds Despite the popularity that stable value funds have enjoyed in the last few years, as part of a diversified portfolio for individuals' retirement accounts, the unique funds have fallen by the wayside in recent months as financial advisors search for alternative investments for their clients. |
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Tracey Longo |
Starting Your Own Mutual Fund Is it worth the time, energy and expense for financial advisors to start their own mutual funds? |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Spinning Their Wheels If you're thinking of steering your clients into life-cycle funds, be sure to kick the tires first. With more and more asset managers rolling out life-cycle funds, it's easy to get caught up in some excitement. But, buyer beware: They can be expensive and have middling performance. |
Registered Rep.
July 23, 2010
Brad Zigler |
An ETF Commission War Is Brewing There's something afoot in the ETF space that's going to challenge reps and advisors to create value-for-money propositions for their services. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Foolish Weekly Fund Wrap-Up Bill Gross hears the bear's growl... 401(k) plans moving away from retail funds... Annual Russell rebalance... |
Financial Planning
October 2, 2007
Jack W. Callahan |
Embrace Change Advisors have to adapt their practices to accommodate retiring clients. |
Investment Advisor
April 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Catch Up How financial advisors can meet the challenge of keeping pace with their clients' retirement needs in a changing world. |
Financial Advisor
December 2003
Jeff Schlegel |
Qualified Plans Rock Through Bear Market The rising demand for advice is changing the 401(k) business. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
Tracey Longo |
All For Advisors Brokerage executives are doing their best to deliver the tools advisors need to move their business to the next level, while still remaining efficient. That includes streamlined technology, investment and rebalancing selections, outsourcing, practice management and business development assistance. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008
Stan Luxenberg |
To Short An ETF The increasing variety of ETFs has made it possible to short in ways that could not be done when the Internet bubble burst. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Cover Story: Patience In the quest to generate retirement income for their clients, many advisors relied on their investing-for-accumulation roots, and therefore were not focused on retirement income planning. |
Investment Advisor
May 2007 |
Not Your Grandfather's Bonds For savvy investors and their financial advisors, taking advantage of changing Fed policy may be a matter of taking a hard look at U.S. Treasury notes again. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
Fancy Footwork Just as the economy is expected to muddle through this year, consensus forecasts indicate parallel plodding in the financial markets, with unspectacular returns for stocks and bonds. Financial planners seeking to thrive in 2005 may need to develop new tactics. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Elizabeth Wine |
Hedge Funds: Are They Worth It? Strategists in the wirehouses and elsewhere say hedge funds were wrongly maligned, and that the good funds can still serve the purpose of diversifying a portfolio and reducing risk. |
Financial Advisor
July 2012 |
Advisor Emporium First Allied launches Women's Impact Network... Fidelity starts Global Equity Income Funds... ProShares launches Covered Bond Fund... |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Suzanne McGee |
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? |
Financial Advisor
January 2005
Raymond Fazzi |
RIAs Enjoy A Fertile Market Registered investment advisors have an opportunity as more households continue to enter the realm of the "affluent" and seek advice, but they'd better get the operational side of their practices in order. |
