Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Registered Rep. October 5, 2009 Kristen French	Citi Bank Brokerage Converts To All Fees Citigroup announced that it would convert its small North American bank brokerage business completely to a fee-on-assets-based fiduciary advice system, and would stop collecting commissions on stock and fund sales.
Financial Advisor July 2010 Evan Simonoff	Are Advisors Delusional? Fiduciary Network CEO Mark Hurley says they are because they believe their firms are very valuable -- but most aren't.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005	13 Percent Percentage of advisors who say they have switched to a wealth management model.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Grove & Prince	In Name Only Financial advisors who fancy themselves "wealth managers" are having trouble walking the talk.
Financial Advisor July 2006 Grove & Prince	Accountants As Wealth Managers Accountants offering wealth management can be double-edged swords -- simultaneously delivering tremendous opportunities and thorny challenges to the firms and professionals they work with each and every day.
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Menchaca & Schultz	Citi Limits? Citi Personal Wealth Management's plan to build a fee-only investment advisory business, announced on Oct. 5, is a bold move into the RIA space.
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Michael Dubis	The Fiduciary Test As a financial planner, are you really on your clients' side? Ask yourself some of these tough questions.
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 John J Bowen	Getting an Edge For many financial advisors, the choice to offer wealth management services isn't easy. They wonder if wealth management is really worth it. The answer is yes.
Investment Advisor December 2009 Kathleen M. McBride	B/D Briefing: Surprise Broker Sentiment Most appear to support a fiduciary standard.
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Bob Veres	The Equity Problem A new report offers two kinds of advice: how to build enterprise value in your firm, and how to evaluate deal structures when you eventually decide to transfer ownership.
Financial Advisor November 2011 Jerilyn Klein Bier	Best-Laid Plans Advisors who've built substantial 401(k) practices share their strategies.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	What Size Pond? It is important for advisors to find a firm that is a good fit for their particular goals. In many cases, small firms work well. For advisors looking to expand their books aggressively, larger firms are often -- but not always -- a good option.
Registered Rep. March 7, 2012 Charles Paikert	Community Banks Betting On Wealth Management Bruised by the financial crisis and no longer able to make much profit on loans and deposits, regional banks are looking to bolster their businesses by managing money for the affluent.
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.
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Ilana Polyak	For Advisors, a Big 401(k) Opportunity As regulatory scrutiny of plans increases, advisors are in the sweet spot to capture new business.
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Margarida Correia	Referrals Aren't Enough to Lure Clients Contrary to what many advisors assume, referrals do not automatically create new wealthy clients.
Financial Advisor February 2005 Grove & Prince	Why This Business Is So Tough The first in a series of articles about the risks, rewards and challenges of being a wealth manager, as well as the ever-changing tools of the trade.
Registered Rep. June 30, 2010 Christina Mucciolo	Clients, though Mostly Satisfied, in the Dark about FA Fees, Says Study Overall advisors and investors are still confused about what the advisors' fiduciary responsibility is exactly.
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.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien	Set Me Free LPL Financial staked a bigger claim on the independent advisor market last month with the announcement that the broker-dealer will allow its advisors to do business under their own RIA.
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 April 2007 Bob Clark	Walkin' the Walk Mark Hurley's new firm, Fiduciary Network, offers an alternative to advisory firms that don't want to be consolidated.
Investment Advisor November 2005	Letters: Follow-up on Fiduciaries Acting like a fiduciary and agreeing in writing to serve in a fiduciary capacity are two entirely different things... Making It Alone... Corrections...
Registered Rep. June 1, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: Crunching the Numbers The industry has come a long way in embracing a fee-based business.
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Stephanie Bogan	Model Performance One way to understand advisory industry issues and trends is to look at key practices by business model, affiliation model and practice model. Our recent study does just that.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Paying Premium? The percentage of advisors' revenues derived from fee-based business ticked up again this year, for the sixth year running.
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Getting the Right Help Financial services firms aren't doing enough to support the transition to wealth management.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince	Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2012 Kristen French	Due Diligence: "Fee-Based" is a Four Letter Word for Financial Advisor Clients Do you use the term "fee-based" with clients and prospects? If so, well, don't.
Registered Rep. October 29, 2013 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: November 2013 A common refrain heard at industry conferences and in the trade press is that "the financial services industry suffers from a bad reputation. How can we rebuild client trust?"
Financial Advisor April 2005 Grove & Prince	The Wealth Management Mindset Learning to manage solutions for unique clients: This is the third and last article in a series about the risks, rewards and challenges of wealth management.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Steve Moore	Less Is More To become a wealth manager, you may want to start with fewer clients.
Investment Advisor February 2010 Robert F. Keane	About the Advisor Just the facts about Ben Marks, founder and president of Marks Group Wealth Management.
Financial Advisor May 2006 Tracey Longo	What Have You Done For Me Lately? The race is on among independent broker-dealers to recruit more top fee-based advisors.
Financial Advisor July 2005 Raymond Fazzi	Defining Wealth Management The term "wealth manager" has provided more sizzle than clarity in recent years, as more and more advisors have adopted the name as they transition to more comprehensive practices geared toward affluent clients.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: The Price of Everything... If you're not adding profit into what each financial advisory client costs, you're losing money. Advisors who use a combination of performance fees tied to assets and a retainer tied to more complex planning are able to consistently demonstrate their value.
Financial Planning June 1, 2009 Donna Mitchell	M & A: Who's Buying? Forget the dearth of capital afflicting the rest of the financial industry: RIA firms have access to plenty of money for mergers and acquisitions.
Investment Advisor May 2010 Ron Pechtimaldjian	The Hartford Has Big Plans for Wealth Management and RIAs Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is reorganizing into insurance, annuity, and wealth management businesses.
Financial Advisor September 2006 David L. Lawrence	A Fiduciary Practice For financial advisory firms, operational challenges come with offering advice.
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Staffing: The Next Generation Early in the life cycle of a financial planning firm, once it grows beyond a few seasoned principals, comes the day you hire your first new young associate planner. It's an important step for your firm, and for the profession.
Financial Advisor September 2012 Jeff Schlegel	Not Making The Grade Financial advisors aren't as fiduciary as they should be, a new survey finds.
Investment Advisor December 2009	Walking the Fiduciary Line on Retirement Retirement plans and their participants may need to use separate advisors who are separate fiduciaries, devoid of the potential for conflicts.
Registered Rep. June 2, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: The Slowly Disappearing Commission Moving from a commission-based business to one based on fees, advocates argue, removes conflicts and puts advisors on the same side of the table as their clients.
Registered Rep. October 17, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	The Odd Couple: Advisors and Accountants Mergers between advisors and accountants are often seen as marriages of mutual interest, but don't kid yourself. Industry experts say there's a Mars-and-Venus quality to the partnerships that makes success difficult.
Financial Advisor February 2007 David J. Drucker	The Retirement Dilemma Will your aging client base kill your financial advisory business?
Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 Diana Britton	How Advisors Are Paid The ascendancy of fee-based compensation in the independent broker/dealer space continues.
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Matt Lynch	Fiduciary Freedom The growing voice of financial advisors demanding to be emancipated from the artificial limitations placed on them by outdated broker-dealers is finally being heard.
Registered Rep. March 28, 2012 Charles Paikert	Branch Managers Are Key For Aggregator Growth There is growing demand for their talents in one corner of the wealth management universe: newly formed aggregators who are busy buying up firms and opening offices across the country.
Financial Advisor May 2005 Raymond Fazzi	Betwixt And Between Hybrid advisors work in both the fee-based and commission worlds.
Financial Advisor December 2007 Sydney LeBlanc	More Options, More Business Independent advisors recently got the opportunity of a lifetime -- the marriage made between fee-based advisory accounts and fiduciary accountability finally made headlines in the SEC repeal of Rule 202.