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The Motley Fool
January 25, 2005
Josie Raney |
Franklin Templeton Takes a Load Off A move to curb sales fees at one of the largest fund providers may be good news for investors, but load funds still scream buyer beware.   |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
David A. Geracioti |
A Whole New Ball Game Financial advisors who grew accustomed to the little, and sometimes not so little, treats that mutual fund wholesalers lavish on them may have noticed a certain lack of swag lately. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2011
Diana Britton |
American Funds: A Victim of Its Own Success? The mutual fund giant's fortunes seem to have turned, with sizeable outflows. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Herd Mentality Instead of being the value-adders they're supposed to be, brokers seem to be following the larger herd of investors. A recent survey shows about two-thirds of brokers invest more than half of the asset they manage with a single mutual fund family. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Vanguard to Advisors: Let's Snuggle Now that the fund giant's founder is retired, the company is tinkering with its business model to appeal to registered investment advisors, particularly for its VIPER exchange-traded funds (ETFs). |
Registered Rep.
December 12, 2003
Stan Luxenberg |
Buying American In Tough Times Although American Funds has had a strong following among financial intermediaries for years (good results and relatively low expenses), part of the firm's success recently can be attributed to the fund trading scandals. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Kevin Burke |
The New Face of Janus For now, the company appears to be making all the right moves but it's too soon to be calling it a comeback. Here is a list of the top five advisor-sold Janus funds based on trailing one-year returns. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Fund Fees Rising When They Should Be Falling Are you getting ripped off by your fund family? While many mutual funds are now enjoying lower operating costs, many fund companies have actually raised the annual fees they charge shareholders. |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Jeffrey M. Laderman |
Mutual Funds: What To Do Now Wondering how to cope with the growing scandal? Here are some answers. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005
David A. Gaffen |
Small Game Hunting About 30% of the 22 million U.S. households have somewhere between $100,000 and $500,000 in net worth, including the equity in their homes. Many of them are feeling neglected by their financial advisors. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Grading Governance The mutual fund scandals have put advisors in a tough position: Recommending a fund that ends up in the headlines can deal a serious blow to an advisor's reputation and can even mean lost clients. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2008
Bob Veres |
The Myths of Our Age These days, the planning profession seems to be caught in a web of myths and half-truths, which make it difficult for us to talk about a lot of issues. Here are some common myths regarding the financial planning industry. |
BusinessWeek
February 21, 2005
Palmeri & Carter |
American Funds' Dilemma Will too much growth make the mutual fund firm a victim of its own success? |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
This May Save the Mutual Fund Industry Finally, investment advisors are wising up. An ongoing change in how many financial advisors get paid is having broad implications for the business. |
The Motley Fool
May 8, 2007
John Rosevear |
Are Advisor-Sold Funds Ever Worth It? In an era when anyone can get market-level performance with a few minutes' effort by buying an index fund from somewhere like Vanguard or T. Rowe Price, advisor-sold funds are harder to justify than ever. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Dinosaurs Roaming the Earth The days of a mutual fund wholesaler coming in, talking about performance and making light banter are mostly over. In fact, some asset managers are rethinking how the wholesaling process should look, from the ground up. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004
Kevin McKinley |
Fee-ling Good Tips for financial advisors on establishing and maintaining fee-based relationships the right way. |
Registered Rep.
June 25, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Advisor Concern and Heated Exchanges at Morningstar Conference While most advisors interviewed at the conference were hopeful that they could weather the recent spate of mutual fund-related scandals, it doesn't mean that they, or their clients, are happy about recent events. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Is Wall Street Abandoning Main Street? Are the major brokerage firms losing interest in the everyday investor who has been the very foundation of many of its successes? |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Fend Off Fund Fees Here are tips on how to avoid unnecessary mutual fund fees and keep the money for yourself. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
Luxenberg & French |
A Pile of Reasons Regulators and broker/dealer management have gone overboard with mutual fund disclosure. Take the case of the B-share class of mutual funds. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
A Question of Size If there is safety in numbers and comfort in size, fund investors are now putting their need for reassurance on parade. |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
Thomas M. Kostigen |
Discrimination, Or Keeping It Simple? Schwab boots funds that have cheaper share classes elsewhere. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Existing Clients Want More Advice The good news for reps is that the world doesn't hate you. The bad news is that acquiring clients -- particularly affluent ones -- is getting a lot more tough. |
Registered Rep.
May 14, 2004
John Churchill |
Whom Do You (Trust) The brokerage business is good --- or better, at least. The market is climbing slowly, firms are showing a profit and hiring again (albeit after massive layoffs), and, according to industry studies, affluent investors are in search of advice. |
Financial Advisor
December 2006
Evan Simonoff |
Challenging Conventional Wisdom The independent advisory market is changing, perhaps in some surprising ways. |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2006
Lauren Young |
Mutual Funds: Back In Action Sure, the markets are jittery, but mutual funds are doing a better job for investors since the dot-com smashup. Long-term returns are up, fees are down, and, despite ETFs and hedge funds, money is rolling in. |
Financial Advisor
February 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial advisory industry: Fiduciary Network Buys Stake In Brouwer, Janachowski... Morningstar Names Top Fund Managers... Advisors Gather At Tech Show... State Of The Industry... etc. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
Say Goodbye to Class-B Mutual Funds Class B never served you well. Now they don't serve Wall Street, either. |
Registered Rep.
August 9, 2011
Diana Britton |
Insurer-Affiliated Reps Show Increased Interest in Selling Investments Advisors affiliated with insurance companies are not locked into the insurance commission mentality; many of them looking to diversify their sources of revenues with other types of investment products as well as AUM-based fees. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Adrienne Carter |
Mutual Funds: Why Fees Still Defy Gravity Investors are seeking answers about why annual fees are assessed when fund company assets have increased. Now regulators want to know, too. |
Registered Rep.
May 3, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Fund Shareholders to Advisors: We Need Ya', Big Guy If you are among the mutual-fund only caste of advisors, don't lose heart: Investors really do need your advice. |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Is Your Broker Robbing You Blind? With many advisors charging fees based on assets under management, there's always a possibility that your advisor will recommend commission-generating investments that aren't the best for you. Although it looks innocent, that amounts to outright theft. |
Registered Rep.
May 26, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
NYSE Cautions Investors on Following Brokers to New Firms The release is part of the "Informed Investor" series developed by the NYSE Regulation to better educate investors. The announcement comes at a time when more reps are choosing to switch firms than at any time since 2002. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Pay Your Broker for Free Funds No-load funds don't cost a dime to buy -- except from some brokers. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010
Howard J. Stock |
Back Office Move Has Advisors Up In Arms -- Some Bolt Questions surround what will happen to BAI clients when Merrill moves their accounts from National Financial to Merrill Lynch. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2006
Nathan Slaughter |
Why I Failed as a Broker Even well-intentioned brokers with a vested interest in seeing their clients succeed will never have as much at stake as you do when it comes to your own money and financial independence. |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Funds Are Getting Loaded There's an alarming new trend among mutual fund companies: They're phasing out many or all of their no-load mutual funds. Are these mutual fund worries reasonable or overblown? A little of both. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Is it Safe Yet? Does the phone ring with a sweeter tone? Is the workday flying by? Do clients smile at you when you bump into them at restaurants? Has perhaps the market found its bottom and have clients recovered their nerve? Is it safe to go back to business as usual? |
The Motley Fool
February 22, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Money Managers: The Best of the Best Don't forget to look for copycats with small fees. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Christopher O'Leary |
Creating an Escape Plan Independence has long been a dream of many wirehouse reps. But for the great majority of wirehouse pros, it remains simply that. Going independent is a proposition fraught with peril and is not to be taken lightly. |
Registered Rep.
January 16, 2013
Stan Luxenberg |
The Rise and Fall of Load Funds All hail no loads and ETFs! Will the move away from loads and commissions continue? Yes, says Avi Nachmany, research director of Strategic Insight. "The old commission business is fast disappearing," says Nachmany. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
David A. Gaffen |
Light A Candle, or Curse the Darkness For brokers and financial advisors, 2002 may be remembered as the year in which those who knew they had the right stuff redoubled their efforts to elevate their skills and become the kind of advisors who could survive the bear market and build a 21st century practice. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Do These Black-Sheep Investments Deserve Your Money? Don't feel compelled to stick with a below-average fund just because it's offered by an otherwise good fund family. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004
Anne Field |
Et tu, 529 Plans Both the NASD and the SEC have revealed they are separately investigating yet another area within the financial services sector: 529 college savings plans. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
The Advisor as Traffic Cop As high-net-worth investors spread their assets around more liberally, they are finding themselves in need of a traffic cop -- a central advisor who can sit in the middle of all the financial activity and make sense of it all. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
David Gaffen |
The Broker and Brand X Syndrome The commoditization of the brokerage industry might be easier for individual reps to deal with, were they not under such intense pressure in virtually every other aspect of their professional lives. |
