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Investment Advisor February 2009 James J. Green |
Future Shock, Under Control Many advisory firms are thriving despite the roaring bear market and deepening recession. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 |
The Future Is Now The independent advisory family is dealing with a disaster that has shaken it to its core. Having survived a brutal 2008, the future looks dim, and many advisors are frustrated at best with the present, and despairing at worst over the future. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Grove & Prince |
Preserving Client Relationships In Down Markets What should financial advisors do when the stock market tanks? Communicate early and often to keep clients happy. |
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 May 2009 David J. Drucker |
Does Asset Allocation Need A Facelift? Has the 2008 stock market changed the rules of asset allocation and how we manage asset volatility? |
Financial Planning August 1, 2013 Keith Johnson |
How Advisors Can Rebuild Trust Five years after the meltdown, advisors still face a crisis of confidence. |
Investment Advisor August 2009 Melanie Waddell |
More Annuities Used in Income Portfolios Advisors are increasingly turning to annuities to help cover their clients' basic needs in retirement. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2012 Ilana Polyak |
Focus on the Home Front When conditions are bad, sometimes it's best to stay home. That's largely how mutual fund investors felt about the second quarter. Bonds were the place where investors sought solace. |
Financial Advisor December 2011 Somnath Basu |
The VIX Fix Where in the past there was a sense of sanity, today each morning brings only apprehensions about how to understand and manage market volatility. |
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 Planning October 1, 2009 David E. Adler |
Wealth Management Report The stock market crash and resulting Great Recession have tested wealth managers' business models, along with everything else financial. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Pursuing Recovery and Profitability When volatility hit the markets in August following Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt, it left investors and their financial advisors scrambling. How ready are firms and advisors to apply the lessons learned in those dark days? |
Financial Planning July 1, 2008 John J Bowen |
Can We Talk? Reaching out to clients and communicating with them during periods of intense market volatility is an absolutely essential-and effective-way to differentiate yourself from other advisors and win the loyalty of your clients. |
Registered Rep. June 23, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Too Much Client Hand-Holding, Not Enough Prospecting The nervous-client-syndrome has yet to wear off. That's according to a new survey that says most advisors are still spending the majority of their time with existing clients rather then generating new business. |
Investment Advisor October 2008 Maya Ivanova |
War Room How the most successful advisory firms are mitigating risk on two fronts: for their clients, and for their own businesses. |
Registered Rep. December 22, 2009 Stan Luxenberg |
Forget Stock Market Gains, It's Best to Avoid Losses Many financial advisors and portfolio managers who held to traditional buy-and-hold stock-bond portfolios are now emphasizing new kinds of diversification. |
Financial Advisor May 2010 Jeff Schlegel |
Rethink. Reorient. Restructure. The downturn caused some advisory firms to re-examine their strategies. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2012 Donna Mitchell |
Other Assets Wealth management firms have started adding alternative investments to their menu of choices to meet the desire of clients to reduce volatility in their portfolios. |
Registered Rep. October 31, 2014 |
Advisor Views on Alternatives While 70 percent of advisors recommend some form of alternative products to their clients, it's a select group. |
Financial Advisor June 2011 Timothy P. McGrath |
Expect To Work Harder Advisors need to communicate with clients more and provide them with more active portfolio management. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
How to Talk to Clients About Market Drops Make sure you have a plan to reassure clients and keep them on track the next time the markets tumble. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 William Glasgall |
Why Marketing Works Over the years, many advisors, being analytical people at heart, have relegated marketing to a minor role behind crunching numbers for clients' financial plans and investment portfolios. Now, that attitude seems to be undergoing a long-needed change. |
Financial Advisor January 2009 Ray Fazzi |
Retirement Dreams Deferred Vanguard Group's Fran Kinniry addresses why what some call the lost decade for equities shouldn't cause clients to bail at just the wrong time. |
Registered Rep. June 2, 2011 Diana Britton |
Dog Days of Summer: Advisors Brace for Slow Months Ahead Advisors are expecting the summer doldrums to kick in for the stock market and the economy over the next few months, according to Rydex|SGI's Advisor Confidence Index. |
Investment Advisor February 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Trends in Client Communication The pressure for greater efficiency and convenience is propelling advisors to try new means of communication. Not surprisingly, most new channels appear with new technologies or updated applications of old techniques. |
Registered Rep. January 29, 2007 Halah Touryalai |
Hedge Funds Losing Their Appeal? The star power of hedge funds seems to have waned in 2006, at least among the wealthiest set. Will investors -- and their advisors -- continue to cool to hedge funds? |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Marla Brill |
ETF Portfolios To Go ETF portfolio management services pitch to financial advisors. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Stephen Savage |
What Just Happened The magnitude of this market decline exceeds the frame of reference of nearly every advisor in business today, and most of their clients. What approach can advisors take with shell-shocked clients? |
On Wall Street September 1, 2009 Helen Kearney |
What Clients Want Now Clients are upset and they're voting with their feet. But instead of bemoaning your woes, you should view this as a time to prove your worth. |
Investment Advisor June 2010 Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Investing Like the Big Boys Alternatives can make a big difference in client portfolios. |
Investment Advisor April 2006 Maya Ivanova |
Self Improvement In the recent supplement to the 2005 Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Survey, many advisors recognize that simply maintaining the status quo is not enough. They're continuously examining their business plans and investment processes to look for improvements. |
Registered Rep. August 17, 2007 John Churchill |
Lending Mess Just a Strain on Returns For Most Advisors Subprime loans, margin lending, hedge fund collapses -- for a majority of financial advisors the storm is still outside their clients' portfolios. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Bernie Clark |
The Changing Affluent Investor Advisors must prepare for new affluent clients and the changes, attitudes and expectations they will bring with them. |
Investment Advisor August 2009 James J. Green |
Millionaires Say 2008 Not So Bad Fidelity's third annual Millionaire Outlook study shows that the high-net-worth feel pretty good about their advisors. |
On Wall Street February 1, 2013 Matthew Lemieux |
Fine-Tuning a Portfolio Gets Year off to a Good Start The beginning of a year offers an opportunity to see how investments align with life goals. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Somnath Basu |
Back To Basics Advisors don't need to rely on complicated models to help clients avert losses. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Aarti N. Maharaj |
Five Questions With Amy Strong Joining Financial Research Corp. as a research analyst in 2007, she examines the state of the industry and marketing effectiveness. |
Registered Rep. June 15, 2009 Kristen French |
Hedge Funds Bruised, But New Retail Products Abound So far this year, investors and advisors seem to have put the brakes on new hedge fund investments. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2009 John J Bowen Jr |
Interesting Times This interesting financial environment offers unparalleled opportunities for advisors to grow their businesses and come out of the current mess stronger than ever. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Kara P. Stapleton |
Who's Investing Where? A new report for advisors finds nearly half of U.S. households own equities or bonds, a significant increase during the last two decades, however, ownership of these assets has declined since 2001. |
Registered Rep. August 24, 2011 Boswell & Nichols |
7 New Advisor "Musts" for Thriving in Crisis These seven tips are great for deepening relationships, initiating new relationships, and finding new business in a time when many of your competitors are missing the mark. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Donna Mitchell |
5 Questions for Richard L. Peterson Psychiatrist and hedge fund manager Richard L. Peterson discusses his patented conversation guide for advisors: Inquire, Describe, Empathize, Add and Suggest (Ideas). |
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. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2010 Matthew Leung |
Getting Retirement Portfolios Back on Track Previous assumptions about asset allocation, diversification and the appropriate levels of risk in portfolios are being challenged. |
Financial Advisor July 2008 Marla Brill |
Keeping Millionaire Clients Happy Millionaire investors are worrying more about the market than they used to. Here are some suggestions to keeping their worries grounded. |
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Bob Clark |
Boring No More With baby boomers moving into their distribution years, bonds -- and the folks who manage them -- are becoming a lot more interesting |
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Lauren Barack |
The New Retirement Portfolio Repairing retirement portfolios is front and center for every advisor. Unfortunately, depending on an investor's age, rebuilding back to their old balances may not be possible. |
Financial Advisor October 2010 Michelle Knight |
Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself In an investment world where volatility has become the new normal, consider these techniques to help you work effectively with clients. |
Registered Rep. October 10, 2011 Susan Konig |
How to Guide Your FAs through Turbulent Times Branch managers must guide and motivate financial advisors to keep a positive attitude. |
Registered Rep. August 7, 2014 Megan Leonhardt |
Ten Charts That Explain What Advisors Think of Hedge Funds Overwhelmingly, advisors consider hedge funds an alternative investment, increasingly a generic catch-all term for anything that is not a mainstream liquid security. |