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Registered Rep. October 24, 2005 Halah Touryalai	UMAs: The Next Big Thing The unified managed account appears to have all the ingredients needed for delivering a fully diversified, customized portfolio for the tax-sensitive retail investor -- albeit at a princely price to the client.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Chris O'Leary	The High Cost of Admission To justify their existence in client portfolios, funds of funds need to post double-digit returns in order to really experience some net (read: after-fee) gains. And 2004 didn't deliver on these promises.
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Entrepreneur October 2009 Rosalind Resnick	Conquering Your Fear of Fees Savvy investors know to read the fine print about money-management charges.
Financial Planning July 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	Get Fees? Young, high-net-worth investors care about the amount they are paying in fees and are only willing to cough up high costs in management fees if they are getting above-average performance in return.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Kristen French	Your Fees Under the Regulator Microscope Financial advisors had better be able to justify their fees, because regulators have been busy examining fees charged to retail clients.
Financial Advisor December 2003 Sydney LeBlanc	Unified We Stand The latest sensation in managed accounts offers streamlined service.
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn	Separate Ways As fee-oriented investment management increasingly appeals to advisors and clients, fee-structured accounts are growing apace. Or not, depending on how the terms are defined.
Financial Planning December 17, 2007 David E. Adler	High Net Worth: UMAs vs. SMAs Some industry observers say unified managed accounts do what separately managed accounts can't -- others call them overpriced gimmicks.
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.
Financial Advisor March 2006 Sydney LeBlanc	Joe Sixpack's Family Office? The Unified Managed Account actually is the newest SMA kid on the block, enabling clients to get a single statement across different products including SMAs, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, as well as multiple SMA managers.
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Elizabeth Wine	Hedge Funds: Are They Worth It? Strategists in the wirehouses and elsewhere say hedge funds were wrongly maligned, and that the good funds can still serve the purpose of diversifying a portfolio and reducing risk.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2004 Kevin McKinley	Fee-ling Good Tips for financial advisors on establishing and maintaining fee-based relationships the right way.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Ronald W. Roge	To Hedge or Not to Hedge The underlying premise of hedge funds, to reduce volatility in a portfolio, is not in itself flawed. What can we do, as fiduciaries, to use them to achieve the performance necessary to meet our clients' long-term financial objectives?
Wall Street & Technology October 28, 2008 Melanie Rodier	UMAs Continue to Grow in Turbulent Financial Markets Amid the worst market turmoil in a generation, high-net-worth investors are increasingly entrusting their long-term wealth to unified management accounts. Fueled by the accounts' asset diversity and rebalancing agility.
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.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Leola Ross	Why High Hedge Fund Fees Are Justified The relatively high fees charged for hedge funds may cause some of your clients to have second thoughts about investing in them. Here's why it can be worth paying the price for truly active management.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Melanie Waddell	How to: Look Before Switching As one financial advisor found, changing custodians takes planning and plenty of time. When contemplating how to make the transition, be aware that there are myriad steps to take and issues to consider before jumping in feet first.
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.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Mutual Fund Advisory Madness If you use a financial advisor, you've probably been approached to invest in a diversified group of funds or a mutual fund advisory program. But be careful before you accept -- they may cost you more than your portfolio can afford.
Financial Advisor February 2007 Thomas M. Kostigen	Firm Offers Reps Their Own Hedge Funds Independent broker-dealer First Allied's program raises questions about risk and conflicts.
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.
Registered Rep. December 23, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Smith Barney's Unified Managed Accounts Raises $500 million Though still in its infancy, Smith Barney's unified managed account has gathered more than $500 million in assets in just two-and-a-half months. The UMA has been heralded as the next stage in the managed account arms race.
Registered Rep. June 15, 2009 Kristen French	Hedge Funds Bruised, But New Retail Products Abound So far this year, investors and advisors seem to have put the brakes on new hedge fund investments.
On Wall Street May 1, 2010 Lauren Barack	Courts Say You Can Charge Higher Fees, But It Still May Not Be Wise The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision says that while advisors can basically charge what they believe their services are worth, mutual fund investors can demand more clarity from their advisors as to why they may pay more than an institutional investor.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Cohen & Overgard	So Many Hedge Funds ... So Little Time Similar to concerns about the myriad of mutual fund choices, investors face a similar dilemma about how to choose a successful hedge fund. Thus, selecting a hedge fund can be a daunting task, but not an impossible one for the educated investor.
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn	The Right Package Fee-based asset management accounts have reached the trillion-dollar level. Some financial planners are finding new flexibility in these packaged deals.
Financial Advisor April 2008 Eric L. Reiner	Hedging Your Bets Richard Lee Jr. presides over the 50-person Dallas advisory Lee Financial Corp. A private placement fund of hedge funds that Richard Lee Jr. uses for clients returned nearly 20% last year.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn	How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Tim Clark	Rounding Out Wealth As unified manged accounts go mainstream, new technologies are emerging to support the next wave of wealth management.
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Dan Wheeler	Hedge Funds, Unplugged Take the buzz out of the hedge fund phenomenon, and you may find less electricity than you think.
BusinessWeek June 6, 2005 Anne Tergesen	A Fee Frenzy At Hedge Funds Add in extra charges for items such as audits, account administration, and trader bonuses, and the average hedge-fund investor pays as much as 3.5% of assets a year.
Registered Rep. August 7, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	Ten Charts That Explain What Advisors Think of Hedge Funds Overwhelmingly, advisors consider hedge funds an alternative investment, increasingly a generic catch-all term for anything that is not a mainstream liquid security.
Registered Rep. June 3, 2010 Kristen French	For Fiduciaries, Fee Monitoring Gets More Scrutiny Advisors who act as fiduciaries have to keep a closer watch over fees and expenses than ever before.
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 Paul Oliu	Client Rules Apply Separately managed accounts (SMAs) have never lived up to their promise of offering clients true flexibility.
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.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Dave Tsujimoto	In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds.
The Motley Fool November 24, 2008 Dan Caplinger	4 Fees You Don't Need to Pay In this era of competition among financial-services firms, you don't need to settle for excessive fees.
Financial Advisor May 2012 Karen DeMasters	Advisors Often Work Against Clients' Interests, Study Says Financial advisors often work against their clients' interests if it means earning more in fees, according to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The Motley Fool September 12, 2008 Selena Maranjian	Are Most "Good" Fund Managers Just Lucky? It seems that the likelihood of a managed fund outperforming the market is actually even lower than we've thought.
Investment Advisor October 2006 Elizabeth D. Festa	UMAs & CIFs: New 401(k) Solutions A Retirement Planner Profile: John Newman's group at Denver-based Fiserv ISS is poised to take advantage of the new trend toward outside management of asset allocation in retirement plans -- and away from do-it-yourself 401(k) investing.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Steve Savage	Consider the Alternatives Think twice before pitching hedge funds and private equity to your financial advisory clients.
The Motley Fool August 13, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Don't Pay Twice for Advice There's nothing inherently wrong with paying for financial advice. But there's a big difference between paying once for a good financial plan versus paying high fees year after year, through good times and bad.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer	Buffett Is Betting Against Hedge Funds Warren Buffett is putting big money on his belief that the S&P 500 will outpace hedge funds over the next 10 years.
Financial Planning July 1, 2013 Patrick Sweeny	How to Talk About Your Fees Clients deserve straight answers on the ways they pay for your services.
Financial Advisor August 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	Independent Broker-Dealers Improving SMA Programs Historically, independent advisors have been forced to sit on the sidelines while wirehouses led the way in products and technology for separately managed accounts. Increasingly, things seem to be changing.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Anne Tergesen	Time To Hedge On Hedge Funds? New research shows that returns are sliding, and some don't help you diversify.
Registered Rep. February 20, 2006 Kevin Burke	MFS Chairman Blasts Hedge Funds at NICSA Confab The chairman of fund complex MFS Investment Management is calling for the formation of a task force to overhaul performance reporting for hedge funds.
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