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Financial Advisor March 2006 Sydney LeBlanc	Joe Sixpack's Family Office? The Unified Managed Account actually is the newest SMA kid on the block, enabling clients to get a single statement across different products including SMAs, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, as well as multiple SMA managers.
Financial Planning January 1, 2006 Randy Bullard	The Next New Thing First there were Separately Managed Accounts, now Unified Managed Accounts. Could the next step be Household Managed Accounts?
Wall Street & Technology October 28, 2008 Melanie Rodier	UMAs Continue to Grow in Turbulent Financial Markets Amid the worst market turmoil in a generation, high-net-worth investors are increasingly entrusting their long-term wealth to unified management accounts. Fueled by the accounts' asset diversity and rebalancing agility.
Financial Planning December 17, 2007 David E. Adler	High Net Worth: UMAs vs. SMAs Some industry observers say unified managed accounts do what separately managed accounts can't -- others call them overpriced gimmicks.
Wall Street & Technology October 25, 2004 Maria Santos	Generation OPM As investors push for more efficient management of their wealth across portfolios, overlay management is gaining ground as the next frontier for separately managed accounts.
Financial Advisor December 2003 Sydney LeBlanc	Unified We Stand The latest sensation in managed accounts offers streamlined service.
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn	Separate Ways As fee-oriented investment management increasingly appeals to advisors and clients, fee-structured accounts are growing apace. Or not, depending on how the terms are defined.
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Masters of the Universe Unified managed accounts are helping financial advisers maintain control of their customers' assets.
Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Custom-Built With demand for personalized advice growing, financial-services firms are overhauling their technology to mass-produce separately managed accounts (SMAs) with a high degree of customization.
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Len Reinhart	The Bigger Picture Will overlay management become the new business model for separately managed accounts?
Wall Street & Technology October 17, 2007 Penny Crosman	Schwab, Investment Managers Prepare for Retirement Boom Some of the 78 million baby boomers are about to retire -- how will financial advisers cope with the deluge?
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Lee Chertavian	Front and Center It may be better to centralize some unified managed account functions -- like overlay portfolio management -- than to farm them out to advisors.
Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn	Doling out the Bounty Financial planners have many more investment vehicles to choose from as mutual funds, SMAs and ETFs compete for their assets. While planners have their preferences, new kinds of accounts make it easier to devote some money to each.
Financial Advisor August 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	Independent Broker-Dealers Improving SMA Programs Historically, independent advisors have been forced to sit on the sidelines while wirehouses led the way in products and technology for separately managed accounts. Increasingly, things seem to be changing.
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn	The Right Package Fee-based asset management accounts have reached the trillion-dollar level. Some financial planners are finding new flexibility in these packaged deals.
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 Paul Oliu	Client Rules Apply Separately managed accounts (SMAs) have never lived up to their promise of offering clients true flexibility.
Wall Street & Technology May 31, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Questar Asset Management Releases New Investor Advisor Platform The registered investment advisor released its new Wealth Designs platform through FundQuest, a provider of turnkey asset management solutions.
U.S. Banker January 2010 Steve Garmhausen	Going Wild for Overlay Banks are winning over affluent clients with a wealth management approach that can maximize long-term profits while minimizing tax bills.
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Neil OHara	SMAs: Overhyped or Underused? Separately managed accounts are often touted for their tax advantages. But some investors don't maximize that potential.
Registered Rep. October 24, 2005 Halah Touryalai	UMAs: The Next Big Thing The unified managed account appears to have all the ingredients needed for delivering a fully diversified, customized portfolio for the tax-sensitive retail investor -- albeit at a princely price to the client.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Allen Plummer	Taming the SMA Hydra Just about any advisor offering managed accounts can testify to the complexity of the related administration and reporting. Fortunately, advisors are awakening to a remedy for these administrative challenges: overlay portfolio management (OPM).
Financial Planning December 1, 2005 Peter Cieszko	SMAs' Real Appeal You may think it's about management -- but a new survey shows that clients like the way SMAs get them close to their advisers.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 John Churchill	Aiming Downmarket Thanks to technological advances and the introduction of multimanager products (so-called multidiscipline accounts, or MDAs), advisors can now put clients into managed accounts with as little as $25,000.
Investment Advisor July 2006 Melanie Waddell	Retirement Planning: Retirement Advisor Profile Novice unified managed accounts (UMAs): just right for retiring boomers.
Bank Technology News January 2008 Michael Sisk	Trust Technology: Remaking Trust for the 21st Century After resisting most change to their business model for 30 years, trust departments across the country are starting to adopt new technologies that are invigorating wealth management industry.
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Lauren Young	Sizing Up Tailored Portfolios A study shows that investors in separately managed accounts like the results.
Wall Street & Technology January 18, 2008 Cory Levine	Data Consolidation Can Help Financial Advisers Gain Client Trust With wealthy individuals employing the services of multiple financial advisers, becoming the most trusted adviser now requires a comprehensive picture of the client.
Financial Advisor February 2005 Sydney LeBlanc	The "Black Cat" Of Separately Managed Accounts Education can prevent or eliminate myths surrounding managed accounts and help clients take advantage of the benefits they afford.
Registered Rep. December 23, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Smith Barney's Unified Managed Accounts Raises $500 million Though still in its infancy, Smith Barney's unified managed account has gathered more than $500 million in assets in just two-and-a-half months. The UMA has been heralded as the next stage in the managed account arms race.
Bank Systems & Technology March 30, 2007 Nancy Feig	Mass Affluent Customers Seek Wealth Management Services Consumers with enough money for diversified investment products but not quite enough to warrant the attention of private bankers represent a new market and new opportunity for retail banks.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Pam Black	A Separate Reality The separately managed account revolution might well be sweeping the financial services industry. That transformation, while still somewhat slow, is inexorable, but also incomplete. So far, for the most part, SMAs aren't being used correctly.
Investment Advisor October 2006 Elizabeth D. Festa	UMAs & CIFs: New 401(k) Solutions A Retirement Planner Profile: John Newman's group at Denver-based Fiserv ISS is poised to take advantage of the new trend toward outside management of asset allocation in retirement plans -- and away from do-it-yourself 401(k) investing.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Kevin Burke	The SMA Migraine Separate accounts have been the "it" product for the financial advisory business for several years. So, why have money managers cooled to this seemingly irresistible financial confection?
Investment Advisor December 2007	Upgrades LPL Financial Services has partnered with Fiduciary360... Kochis Fitz of San Francisco and Quintile Wealth Management of Los Angeles say they will merge... etc.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	Retirement Boom Retiring investors will be removing assets from retirement planning investments and rededicating them to other objectives. As they do, retirees will take their funds to whomever offers the management program most attuned to their needs.
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Lorie Konish	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's $1 Trillion Target Morgan Stanley Smith Barney focuses on growing its Consulting Group division, where it aims to double the assets in the managed account group to more than $1 trillion within the next five years.
Financial Planning November 1, 2005 Al Zdenek	Stalking the Right SMA Manager For financial advisers, conducting due diligence on managed account managers, the process is more akin to researching hedge funds than mutual funds.
Entrepreneur March 2004 Scott Bernard Nelson	Do It Your Way Tailor your portfolio with separately managed accounts.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Tim Beyers	Get What You Pay For Financial advisors are scrambling to find new ways to get at your hard-earned moola. Their latest lure? Unified Managed Accounts.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Kathy Gevlin	Adviser Pulse Although the market is driving the investment industry toward a more holistic wealth-management approach, the transition itself needs to be carefully managed.
U.S. Banker July 2010 Howard Stock	Worthwhile Wordplay? With the ranks of the affluent shrinking, some banks are downplaying the wealth in their wealth management marketing. Can a shift in semantics make a difference?
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Ann Marsh	What Cachet? The sales pitch for separately managed accounts often goes something like this: "So you want to invest with the big boys but you've only got $100,000 to $200,000?"
Registered Rep. March 9, 2011 Kristen French	Morgan Stanley Cutting 200-300 FAs And Trainees The firm's wealth management division, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, should end the quarter with about 17,800 advisors, still the largest brokerage force in the U.S. by headcount.
Financial Advisor March 2007 Sydney LeBlanc	Ideology Investing With SMAs Philanthropy and separate accounts charitably co-exist. The flexibility of SMAs can also help clients who establish charitable remainder trusts.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 Christina Mucciolo	Citi Reorganizes For Smith Barney Citigroup announces plans to reorganize its private bank and Global Wealth Management division into four separate units according to client wealth.
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn	Loaded for Bear A year after the worldwide nosedive, though, things look brighter for managed accounts.
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Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Barr & May	Service, Please! Aging baby boomers have new wealth -- and new advice needs. Is your financial planning business model flexible enough to keep you in the game?
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Jack Sharry	Innovating Our Way to A Bright Future There are breakthrough innovations happening in the income distribution market -- here are a few.