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Financial Advisor June 2011 Bruce W. Fraser |
Rebuilding Trust - Part 2 Six leaders in the wealth management continue their discussion of the advisory industry and how new rules and regulations will impact it. |
Financial Advisor June 2012 |
Forward Progress Five experts discuss the state of the advisory business. |
Investment Advisor April 2009 Lewis Schiff |
Danger & Opportunity: Seling Wisdom Advisors with a wealth-management practice orientation can provide the kind of services affluent families need during difficult market times. |
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. |
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. July 23, 2003 Nigel Goodman |
Servicing Your HNWs A recent Fidelity Investments survey shows that affluent clients will still replace their advisors if they are not meeting portfolio goals. Predictably, the survey encourages advisors to become more attentive to the needs of their affluent clients. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad |
Advisor Pulse If a new survey is to be believed, advisors who help their clients with retirement planning -- and that's most of you -- will soon face a difficult choice: Change the way you service clients or watch your profits shrink. |
Registered Rep. September 30, 2014 David Armstrong |
Editor's Letter: October 2014 The wealth inequality gap is not between rich and poor, it's between the high-net-worth households and everyone else, including the middle class, who have not seen a significant increase in their middling net worth in over a decade. |
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. |
Investment Advisor August 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Broker/Dealer Marketing: Finding Their Voice Broker/Dealers are waking up to the new, post-downturn marketing environment. Here are a few of the best ideas. |
Financial Advisor June 2011 Bruce W. Fraser |
Rebuilding Trust -- Part 1 Though Bernard Madoff was carted off to jail, he still casts a long shadow over the financial advisory community and advisor/client relationships. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Millionaires Ahoy! Independent advisors who are looking to snag more millionaire clients should focus their efforts on prospects who do not already have a registered investment advisor, according to a new study by Fidelity Investments. |
Bank Technology News September 2002 Elizabeth Logue |
Wealth management: Advisors Finally Waking Up to the Internet's Useful Influence Bucking the market once again, Charles Schwab is doing the unthinkable: encouraging financial advisors to use the Internet to service affluent customers. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Donald B. Trone |
Defining 'Fiduciary' In Three Dimensions It means different things to different advisors, depending on their registered status, experience and background. What is clear is the need to continue to build consensus around what the term means to the industry. |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Best Practices for Retirement Planning According to an in depth survey of experienced advisors who devoted a significant portion of their practices to retirement planning, demands from clients are driving the evolution of retirement services. |
Financial Advisor November 2005 David J. Drucker |
Chasing The Wrong Clients? Some think that financial advisors are after the wrong group of wealthy clients. |
Registered Rep. October 19, 2011 Matt Oechsli |
Crafting Your Occupy Wall Street Message Occupy Wall Street is turning into a viral marketing campaign for elite advisors. |
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. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris |
Confusion Reigns Among Wirehouse Advisors On The Fiduciary Issue With all the frenzy over the call for a universal fiduciary standard for all financial and investment advisors, it appears that those in the wirehouses don't really understand the debate. |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Tracey Longo |
It's How You Arrive Scott Hansen, co-founder of Hanson McClain, has no intentions of increasing his $250,000 minimum for new clients. And if he could figure out a way to work with people who only had $100,000 to invest, he'd do it. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 |
Debating The Retirement Challenge At the On Wall Street Roundtable held recently in Lower Manhattan, the experts weighed in on the most significant retirement issues for advisors and their clients in an unsettled market |
Registered Rep. November 5, 2012 Scott Smith |
Look Before You Leap The very benefits IBDs have used to lure advisors may actually be their undoing. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Marie Swift |
What Have You Done For Me Lately? Do your clients understand the true value of what you do? Your best defense may be to make sure that you're articulating the value of the various services you perform. |
Financial Advisor June 2006 Tom Lydon |
Ten Myths Busted At Tiburon Summit Discussions at the Tenth Tiburon Strategic Advisors CEO Summit helped dismantle myths about investments, boomers and more. |
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. |
Investment Advisor November 2005 Melanie Waddell |
Take Your Pick Retirement plan providers are tempting advisors with numerous products and services. |
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 April 2010 Robert F. Keane |
Catching Up With... A short conversation with Fidelity Client Experience Executive VP Maggie Serravalli. |
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. |
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Gallant & Schneider |
Are We There Yet? No, But FAs Can Help. In Search of Retirement Income Many advisors mistakenly believe that retirement income clients are a diminishing asset, not recognizing that these clients tend to consolidate investments and to be more loyal. |
Registered Rep. March 28, 2013 Lauren Barack |
Drive-Through Advice The mass affluent aren't worth a planner's time, right? New technology is upending that assumption and opening up entire new markets to forward-thinking advisors. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Elizabeth Wine |
Financial Advisors Turn to the 401(k) Market for More Business Advisors look to 401(k) plans as fertile ground for business. |
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. |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Andrew Gluck |
Special Trip Family retreats may be a good way to explore the complexities of your wealthiest clients, says this consultant. |
Financial Advisor June 2007 Raymond Fazzi |
Follow The Money Broker-dealers sum up the future of advisory services in two words: rich folks. |
Financial Advisor May 2012 |
Advisors, Clients See Portfolios Differently Advisors say their clients are fixated more on shorter-term concerns such as one-year returns (54%), their portfolio's absolute returns (49%) and portfolio volatility (41%). |
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. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 Ann Marsh |
Women Advisors Forum/Chicago: Strategizing to Grow Top female advisors from across America will gather in Chicago on June 12 for a one-day intensive session at SourceMedia's next Women Advisors Forum to share the secrets and strategies they use to boost their practices. |
Registered Rep. November 21, 2014 Anne Field |
Plug And Play? Matthew Westhoff and his partners have a successful practice and want to expand it by letting other advisors plug into their operation. How can they structure a competitive contract and attract qualified candidates? |
Financial Advisor June 2007 |
Investor Feeding Frenzy Predicted The demographic wave of baby boomers approaching retirement is likely to spawn a feeding frenzy of major proportions in the financial services business over the next 15 years. |
Investment Advisor October 2005 Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: Welcome to the Family Becoming a wealth manager is not quite as easy as it looks. But the mid-tier millionaires are underserved, so honing skills and capturing some of them as clients should be on every financial adviser's list. |
Financial Advisor June 2004 Evan Simonoff |
The Next Wave The comments of a panel of four female consumers were illuminating and provided a glimpse of how the financial services business appears from the outside looking in. It was a bleak picture. |
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Advisor Pulse A new study reveals that while 95% of all financial advisors believe they've talked about fees with their clients, only 66% of customers say their advisor has initiated a fee discussion with them. |
Registered Rep. July 9, 2003 Nigel Goodman |
The "Potential" Play in the HNW Game The pursuit of high-net-worth clients is a tough road. An increasing number of financial advisors are trying to land well-to-do clients before they attain high-net-worth status. |
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 October 2012 Karen DeMasters |
Competition, Succession Plans Key To RIA Growth The independent financial advisor channel has enjoyed a strong decade of growth, but firms in this space need to understand the changing factors within the industry says a recent white paper by the Alliance for Registered Investment Advisors. |
Financial Advisor November 2011 Jerilyn Klein Bier |
Best-Laid Plans Advisors who've built substantial 401(k) practices share their strategies. |
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 October 1, 2010 |
Letters Most people think that health care reform will solve many of the problems facing retirees and people about to retire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Financial advisors need to be prepared to talk about health care costs. |
Registered Rep. August 29, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Merrill, MSSB Invest in New Technology Wirehouse firms continue to upgrade their advisor workstation technology following the recent consolidation among firms. |