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Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Stephen Savage |
What Just Happened The magnitude of this market decline exceeds the frame of reference of nearly every advisor in business today, and most of their clients. What approach can advisors take with shell-shocked clients? |
Investment Advisor March 2009 Bob Clark |
We Can Be Heroes One of the only bright spots we've seen has been those firms offering ETFs that short the markets, use leverage, or track commodities indexes. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 David A. Twibell |
Hedge Your Bets During these troubling times, how can advisors help clients protect their investment portfolios? There are a number of viable strategies. |
Financial Advisor June 2006 Tracey Longo |
Symposium Roundup The 2nd Annual Financial Advisor Symposium showed how to transform your practice to meet retiring boomers' needs. |
Financial Advisor June 2007 Tracey Longo |
Finding Even Greater Growth The Financial Advisor Symposium in Las Vegas focused on practice growth strategies. |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Don Schreiber, Jr. |
Danger & Opportunity: A Fool's Errand Banks, markets around the world have been rallying, but before celebrating, advisors should look carefully at the underpinnings of the market's rally. |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
From Complexity to Simplicity And Back Using plain-vanilla mutual funds, retail advisors can build low-correlating portfolios, like absolute-return portfolios. In fact, the sophisticated financial advisor is performing like a mini-institutional consultant of yore. |
Financial Advisor May 2010 Evan Simonoff |
The Untold Story Editor's Note: Clients' portfolios may be back to within a few percentage points of their all-time highs, but it's a small consolation to advisors facing lawsuits or arbitrations. |
Registered Rep. June 2, 2011 Diana Britton |
Dog Days of Summer: Advisors Brace for Slow Months Ahead Advisors are expecting the summer doldrums to kick in for the stock market and the economy over the next few months, according to Rydex|SGI's Advisor Confidence Index. |
Financial Advisor January 2009 Ray Fazzi |
Retirement Dreams Deferred Vanguard Group's Fran Kinniry addresses why what some call the lost decade for equities shouldn't cause clients to bail at just the wrong time. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Lee Conrad |
Has Buy & Hold Outlived Its Usefulness? When the market is characterized by drastic ups and downs and there is no general trend, how can investors expect to gain anything? |
Financial Advisor February 2, 2009 Marla Brill |
Handle With Care Inverse and leveraged inverse ETFs can help battle a bear market, but you need to watch them carefully. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Suzanne McGee |
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? |
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. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Bright Spots Experts from around the country tell more than 500 attendees at the Financial Advisor Symposium how to make the most of a difficult economic climate. |
Financial Advisor December 2005 Tracey Longo |
Strategies For An Uncertain World Opportunities aplenty, for advisors ready for a bumpy ride into the future: More than 1,200 investment advisors and other professionals from around the country converged to attend the 8th Annual Financial Advisor Symposium, an event designed to show advisors how to move their firms to the next level success. |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Raymond Fazzi |
Conservatism Rules In Retirement Planning After a traumatic four years marked by a recession, a war on terrorism and a market decline, many advisors are rethinking their retirement planning 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. |
Financial Advisor November 2007 Tracey Longo |
Sixty Is The New Forty Financial advisor symposium attendees hear how to restructure practices for retiring boomers. |
Financial Advisor May 2010 Evan Simonoff |
Nick Murray On Numbers As the country emerges from a nasty recession, this perceptive observer of the financial services industry is upbeat about the future for advisors. A conversation with Nick Murray. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Suzanne McGee |
The Athletic Portfolio In this environment, a good portfolio is one that rides out storms and takes advantage of opportunities -- one that demonstrates strength, flexibility and endurance. What should financial advisors do to deliver peak performance for clients? |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Evan Simonoff |
Absolute Return Obsession With the correlation landscape changing, the interest in absolute return funds is growing. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2008 David J. Drucker |
Shaken and Stirred During the October market collapse most advisors were inundated with calls from clients who used to weather a market drop with equanimity. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2008 Larry Silver |
Keeping It Simple Perhaps the best investment strategy for these volatile times, shared by the most successful advisors, was quite simple: Remain fully invested in a basically conservative, diversified portfolio.. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Stacy Schultz |
ETFs' Glory Days At a time when the market was swinging by hundreds of points a day, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offered a more secure alternative. |
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 Advisor June 2009 Marla Brill |
ETF Portfolios To Go ETF portfolio management services pitch to financial advisors. |
Registered Rep. October 31, 2014 David Armstrong |
Editor's Letter: November 2014 Since the financial crisis, money has poured into liquid alts. Morningstar research shows some $300 billion net assets in alternative mutual funds, up from $50 billion in 2008. |
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 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. |
Financial Advisor November 2003 Evan Simonoff |
Don't Miss The Opportunity After three and a half long years, it appears that the secular bear market that followed a secular bull market is over. |
The Motley Fool September 3, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Make These 4 Moves and Stay Panic-Free You don't know what's coming, but you can prepare for it. |
Financial Advisor February 2004 Evan Simonoff |
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns. |
Financial Advisor May 2010 Alan Lavine |
Watch Your Investment Tail Advisors are using options to insure portfolios against "once in a lifetime" losses. |
Investment Advisor January 2009 Bob Clark |
Compassion Fatigue In times like these, when clients are emotional, financial advisors more than ever need to be objective and professional. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2008 Jeanne Lee & Marion Asnes |
Markets Under Siege Now that familiar Wall Street landmarks are gone, advisors are trying to determine what the new, brutal market environment will mean for their businesses, what may happen next and how it might affect their client relationships. |
Financial Advisor June 2012 |
Forward Progress Five experts discuss the state of the advisory business. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Paul Menchaca |
Income from Where? Financial advisors are realizing the mean variance efficient frontier model is flawed for retirement planning. The main shortcoming is its focus on a portfolio's risk-return tradeoff in terms of returns rather than generation of sustainable income. |
Financial Advisor June 2008 |
Diverse Viewpoints Nearly 1,000 advisors and other financial services professionals recently attended the 4th Annual Spring Financial Advisor Symposium, which was themed around two basic topics, the changing nature of investing in an increasingly global world and client acquisition. |
Financial Advisor August 2004 |
New Accounts Won't Cover Lifetime Medical Cost Health Savings Accounts will fall short... Advisors Cautious On New Hedge Fund Rule... Portfolio Management Software... Managers Bullish On U.S. Equities... etc. |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 David Prokupek |
Shelter From the Storm Today's market -- with rising interest rates, significant volatility, few sectors providing positive performance and solid global economic expansion -- bears striking resemblance to the 1970s. So, what are an advisors and investors to do? |
Financial Advisor May 2005 Shaw-Grove & Prince |
Taking the Pulse of Affluent Investors A recent survey reveals that millionaire investors have changed their thinking over the past four years and have lost faith in their financial advisors. |
Investment Advisor October 2010 Maya Ivanova |
A Decade of Evolution Advisory practices make gains, but still face challenges |
Financial Advisor June 2012 |
Murray: Retirement Income Boils Down To One Issue Nick Murray, an author who also publishes a newsletter and provides a spot coaching service, stressed that advisors must focus on whether the income is going to outlive the people or are the people going to outlive the income? |
Investment Advisor April 2006 Maya Ivanova |
Self Improvement In the recent supplement to the 2005 Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Survey, many advisors recognize that simply maintaining the status quo is not enough. They're continuously examining their business plans and investment processes to look for improvements. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
The Retirement Boom The 2005 Financial Advisor Retirement Planning Symposium hears of scenarios and solutions for the coming boomer retirees. |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Marla Brill |
Courting A New Crowd Rydex Investments hopes to move beyond market timers to mainstream financial advisors. |
Registered Rep. December 22, 2009 Stan Luxenberg |
Forget Stock Market Gains, It's Best to Avoid Losses Many financial advisors and portfolio managers who held to traditional buy-and-hold stock-bond portfolios are now emphasizing new kinds of diversification. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Pursuing Recovery and Profitability When volatility hit the markets in August following Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt, it left investors and their financial advisors scrambling. How ready are firms and advisors to apply the lessons learned in those dark days? |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Len Reinhart |
Global Positioning Financial advisors need to rethink the basics of international investing for retiring boomers. |