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Financial Advisor January 2005 Alan Lavine |
Fiduciary Ratings Debut For Mutual Funds Mutual fund monitoring services have started rating and measuring fund complexes based upon their responsiveness to fiduciary concerns, offering a tool to protect your clients and yourself. |
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. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Lauren Young |
Report Cards On Governance Morningstar and ISS both give grades on corporate governance, but their rating systems differ widely. |
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 |
An Acid Test for Boards Institutional Shareholder Services is making financial performance a metric for supporting directors' reelection. |
Registered Rep. March 29, 2011 Diana Britton |
Morningstar: Pick Funds that Regard Investors as Partners Fund companies that regard their investors more like partners than "other people's money" are more likely to deliver good risk-adjusted returns and have higher survivorship rates. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Shareholder Rights and Corporate Performance Corporate boards have long adopted techniques to stave off hostile takeovers. Shareholders' organizations have generally decried such techniques. So far, the research indicates the shareholders' groups have it right... |
Financial Planning July 1, 2012 Allan S. Roth |
Beyond the Stars Morningstar's new forward-looking rating scale for mutual funds is sure to have a significant impact on the research done by financial advisors. |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Shareholders, Stop Slacking Off! Responsibility shouldn't be a revolutionary idea. Many U.S. investors have exhibited ongoing apathy about the workings of the companies in which they invest. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2005 Craig L. Israelsen |
Making the Grade Does Morningstar's new stewardship ranking of a fund's ethics correlate with good performance? |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Mary Rowland |
Tough Lessons Ahead For ETFs An interview with Don Phillips, managing director of Morningstar, on what's happening with mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool July 15, 2009 Chris Jones |
Does Good Governance Make Great Stocks? Reemphasizing the importance of shareholder rights. |
The Motley Fool September 12, 2005 Rich Duprey |
S&P Ratings a Zero The credit rating agency ends its corporate governance evaluation service. Considering that it was up to the end user to decide whether to make S&P corporate governance score (CGS) ratings public, the ratings' value to the investing public was probably minimal. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
A Surprising Trait of Outperforming Funds When you study a fund, you might want to pay attention to the aspects of the fund that the researchers found matter the most: the quality of the board of directors, and its fees. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2008 Rich Duprey |
When Good Isn't Good Enough A new study shows that good corporate governance scores don't really help predict trouble. |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
A Game Changer for Mutual Funds Morningstar announces a new analyst ratings system that could have meaningful implications for the mutual fund world. |
CFO August 1, 2006 Don Durfee |
More Rules, Higher Profits? New research shows that good governance practices may reduce your cost of capital. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Institutional Failures It's high time that sleeping giants remember their stewardship role. Many large mutual funds don't take a leadership role in pushing back against corporate managements when it's necessary. |
Financial Advisor September 2006 David L. Lawrence |
A Fiduciary Practice For financial advisory firms, operational challenges come with offering advice. |
The Motley Fool April 28, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Funds Pushing for Good Governance Many fund families are supporting reforms for corporate America. |
BusinessWeek January 14, 2010 Lewis Braham |
Fund Managers: Betting Their Own Money A Morningstar study shows that funds with manager investment may do better than their peers. But they remain a minority. |
BusinessWeek October 18, 2004 Anne Tergesen |
In Your Fund Manager On Your Side? Until recently, most investors asked just one thing of their mutual funds: red-hot returns. Now, in the wake of the trading scandals, investors are also looking for fund management they can trust. |
Financial Advisor September 2012 Donald B. Trone |
The Point Of Triangulation The coordinates of a higher professional standard of care include the point where leadership, stewardship and fiduciary governance intersect. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Behind the Star System Morningstar defends its mutual fund ratings in the face of new competition. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2010 Donald B. Trone |
The Practical Fiduciary The steps required to create a fiduciary practice are similar to those of the financial planning process. Here's how to get started. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen |
Tales of the Tape When you look at annual returns, stocks, equity mutual funds and indexes tell surprisingly different stories. |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Where All the Funds Are Above Average Morningstar's new system has a lot of winners and not too many losers. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 |
The Wrong Medicine? The SEC's requirement that mutual fund boards be stocked with more independent executives met with jeers when it was passed last year. Now, the raspberry blowers have some research to back up their disdain. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Ann Therese Palmer |
Governance Alpha It sounds nice: Making money by investing in companies guided by enlightened executives. But do companies that play nicely really outperform those companies who are controlled by selfish and greedy executives? |
Financial Advisor January 2008 Mary Rowland |
Where The Oceans Of Knowledge Meet What the insurance industry needs is not more honest people but an objective evaluation service to keep more people honest. |
Investment Advisor August 2010 Marlene Y. Satter |
Morningstar to Rate 529 Plans Morningstar, which has researched 529 plans for years, is now adding a qualitative rating system for the plans, and quantitative ratings on 529 options within the plans. |
Financial Advisor September 2012 Jeff Schlegel |
Not Making The Grade Financial advisors aren't as fiduciary as they should be, a new survey finds. |
Financial Advisor November 2003 Marla Brill |
Advisors Divided Over Fund Scandals Some think they are isolated cases; others say their faith is being tested. |
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. |
Investment Advisor May 2010 Robert F. Keane |
30 for 30 Interviews: John Bogle Vanguard founder John C. Bogle comments on how the mutual fund business has changed over thirty years. |
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2007 Charles Keenan |
Pillars of Good Governance REIT corporate governance is among the best in the United States and boards across the industry remain highly focused on corporate performance and strategy. |
Investment Advisor January 2008 Mike Patton |
Shining a Light on Software Our intrepid advisor kicks the tires on four applications that pick and monitor clients' investments. Morningstar Principia... Advisor Workstation... etc. |
Financial Advisor September 2008 Alan Lavine |
Tenth Time Around When financial advisors make decisions, they are typically also reviewing tons of investment reports for ideas and insights. Each has his favorite sources for inspiration. |
Financial Advisor March 2008 David Lawrence |
A Higher Standard It is incumbent on all financial advisors to acknowledge their potential role as a fiduciary and act accordingly where and when applicable. So, that leads to a question of just what a fiduciary does during a typical day. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2011 Donald B. Trone |
Costly Decisions Many people think a fiduciary must select the lowest-cost service provider or lowest-priced basket of goods and services for clients. Not so. |
Investment Advisor January 2010 |
Broker/Dealer News New developments from The Insured Retirement Institute, Morningstar, and Financial Research Corp.: Insured Retirement Institute praises Mary Shapiro... Morningstar's new credit ratings... New study from Financial Research Corp... |
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 |
Investors Fight Back From the Netherlands to South Korea, corporate boards are taking major steps to improve shareholder rights in the wake of financial scandals. |
Financial Advisor July 2012 Donald B. Trone |
The Fiduciary-Steward If federal efforts to subject more people to the fiduciary standard lower the bar, advisors who offer a higher level of care may call themselves fiduciary-stewards. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Trone & Harvey |
Sweet Harmony Industry and regulators can feel comfortable that a fiduciary standard need not be cumbersome, but should, when properly crafted, significantly improve how investment decisions are prudently managed. |
Financial Advisor September 2011 |
Frontline News Laboring Over A Fiduciary Standard... Advisory/Brokerage Industry Still Climbing Out Of Meltdown Wreckage... Compliance Hot Spots... etc. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
When Companies Do the Right Thing Not every corporation fights its shareholders' requests. |
Reason February 2009 Jon Entine |
The Next Catastrophe Think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a politicized financial disaster? Just wait until pension funds implode. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Donald B. Trone |
Step Four: Implement In this segment in our series, we are examining the steps of a traditional investment management process and demonstrating how a principles-based fiduciary standard can be incorporated into the process. |
Investment Advisor October 2006 Melanie Waddell |
Catching up with... An interview with Tom Grzymala, a former RIA and Accredited Investment Fiduciary Auditor about ensuring those advisors who proffer advice are living up to fiduciary standards. |
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 November 2007 |
Upgrades iShares S&P California Municipal Bond and New York Municipal Bond funds from Barclays begin trading... Morningstar releases new Stewardship Grades for more than 1,000 mutual funds... Rydex launches ETF Essentials... etc. |