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Investment Advisor May 2009 |
Soapbox: A Modest Proposal for Wealth Managers Advisors should adopt a financial version of the Hippocratic Oath. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Avoiding the Next $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme The scandal and scope of Bernard Madoff's fraud is a further blow to the financial sector's reputation. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Bob Clark |
The Perfect Ponzi While the Madoff debacle has been a disaster for thousands of investors, the timing couldn't be better for independent advisors. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2011 Suzanne McGee |
Hedging the Risk It's hard for most advisors to undertake the level of due diligence required to figure out which hedge fund managers can genuinely add alpha, and which ones are breaking the law. |
Registered Rep. June 22, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
Madoff Had Help Running His Fraud, Says SEC The SEC today indicted four individuals for helping Bernie Madoff in his colossal Ponzi scheme. One of the individuals was a registered rep and a second was an investment advisor. |
Financial Advisor February 2009 Bill Bachrach |
Building Trust In The Age Of Madoff Advisors, it's your responsibility to place clients' money with a manager who won't steal it. |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Ponzi Schemes Explode Why are all these Ponzi schemes and frauds coming to light simultaneously? A flight to cash. |
Financial Advisor February 2009 Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Broker-Dealer View On Regulation... Tax (Saving) Season Is Here... Credit Crisis May Hurt Wealth Management... ChFC Requirements Get Tougher... |
Financial Advisor June 2004 Sydney LeBlanc |
SMAs and Due Diligence: Streamlining The Process Software tools and common sense can help advisors enter the separately managed accounts (SMA) business. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 John J. Bowen |
Behind the Buzz Many advisors are "wealth managers" in name only. Here's how to implement the business model in your practice. |
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011 David Kamp |
Book Review: The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques The Ponzi-scheming sociopath finally opens up. How'd he do it? Lots of practice |
Financial Advisor May 2010 Andrew Gluck |
Private Equity Pitfalls Few advisors possess the resources required to research these deals. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Karen C. Altfest |
Presumed Guilty Even if we think we've been successful for a long time, we never can stop presenting our credentials and accomplishments, and demonstrating our stability to those who are new. As you sit in prison, Bernie Madoff, thanks for the reminder. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 |
The Leaders Speak The most influential leaders in wealth management today expound on evolution, revolution, moving the debate past wirehouse versus independent, and more. |
Registered Rep. May 15, 2009 Kristen French |
SEC Proposes Anti-Ponzi Rules. Do They Fall Short? Surprise exams and reviews by third party accountants: These are the new measures the SEC proposed to combat ponzi schemes like the one Bernie Madoff pulled off. |
Registered Rep. October 18, 2011 Charles Paikert |
Freedom From Wealth: Heavy Hitters Offer Game Plan For High Earners "Freedom from Wealth" is at its best when it clearly lays out exactly how families should approach the wealth that they have, including what they want it to be for and how they should go about managing it. |
Financial Advisor November 2012 Mary Rowland |
Tough Test An entrepreneur evaluates advisors for the wealthy. These families now have a "search firm" to perform due diligence on advisors and help the families find exactly the right one. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Marion Asnes |
Envestnet's Fiduciary Opportunity Bill Crager, president of Envestnet, is not going to wait for Washington to figure out the fate of the fiduciary standard. The way he sees it, the market has already spoken. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 James E. Warren Jr. |
Beyond the Payout Eight critical points that every financial advisor contemplating a change of affiliation should consider. |
Investment Advisor January 2009 Jeff Joseph |
More Regulation Post-Madoff? The only thing they are certain of is that his alleged Ponzi scheme. |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Grove & Prince |
Creating A Wealth Management Team Team members are competitive, but that shouldn't hurt their service. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
How to Tell a Madoff From a Buffett For investors, the Madoff episode raises one question that supersedes all others: How do I avoid investing my money with a fraudster? |
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
Living Dangerously In today's hazardous world, affluent clients are looking to financial advisors for help in protecting more than their financial assets. |
Bank Technology News June 2009 John Adams |
Madoff Backlash Increases Need For Self-Service Tools Bernie Madoff's journey to jail has had a lot of fallout, including effects on wealth managers who now have a new dynamic on their hands: scared clients with shrinking assets who've also lost faith in the wealth management profession. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
Network Basics Financial planners should assemble a team of three core experts to meet the needs of their wealthy clients. |
Financial Advisor January 2007 Sydney LeBlanc |
The Lost Art Of Consulting Technology streamlines a messy, time-consuming process, but some financial advisors and other consultants still like to get their hands dirty. |
Finance & Development March 2010 Monroe et al. |
Perils of Ponzis Regulators need to stop Ponzi schemes before they gain momentum, especially in developing countries. |
Registered Rep. July 15, 2010 John Byrne |
UBS Launches New Wealth Planning Unit Tony Roth, who previously ran the brokerage's private wealth management portfolio advisory group, has been named to lead the new division. |
BusinessWeek March 11, 2010 Harry Markopolos et al. |
How I Got the Goods on Madoff, and Why No One Would Listen This ad hoc team of sleuths spent eight years trying to expose Bernie Madoff as a fraud - but the SEC turned a deaf ear. His new book tells the sad tale. |
Financial Advisor October 2005 Sydney LeBlanc |
The Billion-Dollar Equation Skill, service, plus separate accounts are key for advisors managing a billion dollars. |
Investment Advisor January 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: The Next Case of Madoff Disease The same seductive allure will still infect some advisors and clients with short memories and weak immune systems. |
Investment Advisor October 2006 Savita Iyer |
Stepping Into The Great Wide Open An open architecture approach is allowing big banks to compete with private banks for the wealthiest clients. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2009 |
Marcia Kramer Mayer Marcia Kramer Mayer of NERA Consulting speaks about how the SEC should look to the example set by the IRS, which uses computerized searches to identify investment fraud problems. |
Financial Advisor January 2006 Grove & Prince |
Key Mistakes Of New Wealth Managers Wealth management is a serious decision for advisors that can be disruptive to their business and difficult to implement. Future generations of advisors can benefit by using these findings to build skills, reorient focus and settle in to the role of wealth manager. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Brian Richards |
Roundtable: Lessons From the Madoff Mess 71-year-old Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff was given the maximum sentence for the 11 criminal counts to which he pleaded guilty: 150 years in jail. Motley Fool writers offer opinions on the lessons learned. |
Investment Advisor August 2006 Susan L. Hirshman |
The Wealth Advisor: Lessons From the Best With a targeted client plan consisting of an integrated approach for client segmentation, actively pursuing referrals, and furthering meaningful client contact, financial advisors will be on their way to meeting their clients' financial needs. |
Financial Advisor August 2006 Hannah Shaw Grove |
Life Insurance And Wealth Management Helping client with life insurance is an important service of effective wealth managers. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Mark Tibergien |
Restoration After we finish blaming everyone else for this mess, here's how to take control of our advisory businesses and begin to restore clients' trust in the industry. |
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. |
Financial Advisor October 2010 Michael Patrick Jacobs |
Investors Demand More This advisor provides highlights of what he's found clients today are looking for when they seek advice. |
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Suzanne McGee |
Higher and Higher Today, there are more than 9 million Americans with at least $1 million to invest. Even for the best-prepared and best-educated advisor, a time may come when they need to consider whether continuing to work with their ultra-affluent client is in the best interests of both parties. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Madoff: Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go Bernard Madoff has pleaded guilty and will now go directly to jail. We hope he'll learn his lesson -- or at least, that he'll spend the rest of his life in prison -- but honestly, there are things in this case for all of us to learn. |
Entrepreneur May 2009 Rosalind Resnick |
How to Spy a Scam Its may be time to stop taking those longstanding relationships for granted. |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Jesse Westbrook |
Whistleblowers Get a Raise The SEC will offer up to 30 percent of the money from fines to reward tipsters. |
Financial Advisor January 2009 Rebecca Pomering |
Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: What Do Counselors Think About Clients? Advisors to wealthy families speak out about clients and careers. |
Registered Rep. March 10, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
New RIA Custody Rules In Force Friday New rules aimed at preventing registered investment advisors from pulling off ponzi schemes are now in effect. |
Investment Advisor May 2009 David A. Lifson |
After the Fraud Victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme have probably paid taxes on earnings they never had. Here are tips for recovering some of that money. |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2008 John Rosevear |
An Investing Lesson From the Super-Rich As details have emerged about Bernie Madoff's investors, who have collectively lost up to $50 billion in his Ponzi investing scheme, one lesson that has emerged is that major league wealth doesn't automatically impart investment wisdom. |
Registered Rep. June 6, 2011 Diana Britton |
The New Due Diligence There's a shift towards more of a focus on operational due diligence, rather than just relying on performance and track records. |