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On Wall Street
June 1, 2011
Carl Resnick |
ETFs: The Ideal Asset Allocation Tool? True diversification has become the primary focus of smart advisors. To the benefit of these advisors and their clients, a wide range of well-built exchange-traded funds has emerged to represent just about every asset class available.   |
Financial Advisor
October 2008 |
Advisor Emporium The latest news from six well known names in the investment management and advisory industry. |
Financial Advisor
June 2009
Marla Brill |
ETF Portfolios To Go ETF portfolio management services pitch to financial advisors. |
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. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2010 |
Five Questions With Gurinder Ahluwalia The President/CEO of Genworth Financial Wealth Management talks about his company's goals and services. |
Financial Advisor
February 2012 |
Cetera Buys Genworth's Tax And Accounting Unit Genworth's tax and accounting financial advisory unit, Genworth Financial Investment Services, was sold last month to Cetera Financial Group, an independent broker/dealer network serving approximately 5,000 financial advisors. |
Financial Advisor
April 2009 |
Advisor Emporium Products of interest to advisors: AdviceAmerica launches ClientVision Web-based client relationship management tool... Genworth Financial Investment Services is launches fee-based, money management platform, Managed Wealth ADVANTAGE... etc. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2011
Elizabeth Wine |
Active Resistance It's not been a good recovery for actively managed mutual funds. Investors have been steadily pulling money out, while sending waves of cash into passively managed index funds and exchange-traded funds. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
August 2005
Sydney LeBlanc |
ETFs and SMAs: Side By Side Now, separately managed accounts can mean anything, from an entire basket of different separate account managers to an account also holding mutual funds, cash, and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. Of these companion investment vehicles, ETFs are proving to be one of the most popular. |
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
October 2012
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
A Different Kind Of Leverage Independent broker-dealers are using technology to help their advisors prosper. |
Financial Advisor
August 2, 2010 |
Advisor Emporium New Products: Fidelity Launches New Resource... Schwab Rolls Out Reporting Tool... Putnam Funds Top $2 Billion... New Investment Entity Created... MarketCounsel Creates Virtual Vault... Securities America Launches Tools... |
Registered Rep.
November 10, 2010
Diana Britton |
Advisor Appetite For Absolute Return Growing While growing, advisors surveyed still largely view absolute return as a satellite holding, with only 16 percent viewing it as a core holding. |
Financial Advisor
May 2011 |
Advisor Emporium Curian launches research portfolio... Investors Capital creates VIP desk... USAA expands mutual fund access... |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Savage & Lowenstein |
Semicustom Solutions Managing client accounts based on model portfolios and harnessing technology to implement investment strategy efficiently and consistently at the client portfolio level. |
Financial Advisor
August 2007
Tracey Longo |
A World For Advisors Broker-dealers across the country are reporting record revenue increases -- a significant portion of these from fee-based business -- and say they're continuing to step up their game in order to recruit advisors with significant practices. |
Investment Advisor
April 2008 |
Upgrades The year-old Rydex Managed Futures Strategy Fund has attracted approximately $400 million in assets... Bear Stearns Asset Management launched the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund... Sun Life Financial announced several new investment options... |
Investment Advisor
February 2009 |
A New Benchmark for Advisors With many advisors using an asset allocation strategy, the S&P 500 is no longer a great benchmark against which to set your pace. Take a look at these new benchmarks. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2010
Gallant & Schneider |
Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2006
John J. Bowen |
Outsource It! As a financial advisor, if you want to focus on wealth management, consider outsourcing everything else to a turnkey asset management provider. |
Registered Rep.
September 30, 2014 |
Advisor Views on ETFs As exchange traded funds continue to take more market share, the number of advisors using the structure increased to 84 percent in 2014, up from 82 percent in 2013. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
Loaded for Bear A year after the worldwide nosedive, though, things look brighter for managed accounts. |
Financial Advisor
July 2004
Tracey Longo |
Clearing Firms Come Courting With clearing industry players so clearly targeting advisors, competition for advisor business is likely to get even more interesting very soon. |
Investment Advisor
December 2008
James J. Green |
The Failure of Asset Allocation Asset allocation can explain past market performance, but not predict which allocation will work in the future. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Mike Patton |
Tactical Versus Strategic In strategic asset allocation, long-term capital expectations are integrated with a client's goals and a target allocation is established. With tactical asset allocation, adjustments are made based on short-term expectations for an asset class. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Stephanie Bogan |
Growth: Realizing Your Potential To build your advisory practice into what you dream it will be, you need to see it clearly and then think like a businessperson, streamline operations and market yourself. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
Need for Education A preview of the 2008 Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Study, a snapshot of the financial advisory business. |
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 Advisor
July 2011 |
Frontline News Advisors Using Fewer Asset Managers... The New CFPs... Avoid The Analyst Herd... etc. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
Tracey Longo |
All For Advisors Brokerage executives are doing their best to deliver the tools advisors need to move their business to the next level, while still remaining efficient. That includes streamlined technology, investment and rebalancing selections, outsourcing, practice management and business development assistance. |
Investment Advisor
February 2010
Robert F. Keane |
The Green Advisor: Adding ESG to Asset Allocation New portfolios aim to help advisors align values and diversification. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Bruce W. Fraser |
Shifting Landscape A shifting economic environment is also changing financial advisors' practice management world. |
Financial Advisor
February 2, 2009
Sherri Scordo |
Advisor Emporium Pershing assists advisors going independent... New advisors receive technology assistance... FPA offers best practices tools... Direxion enters ETF market... Foliodynamix joins communications gateway... Scottrade adds portfolio director... |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2010
Aarti N. Maharaj |
Five Questions With Amy Strong Joining Financial Research Corp. as a research analyst in 2007, she examines the state of the industry and marketing effectiveness. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2006
Lee Chertavian |
Front and Center It may be better to centralize some unified managed account functions -- like overlay portfolio management -- than to farm them out to advisors. |
Financial Advisor
July 2005
Tracey Longo |
AssetMark's Asset Grab How former financial planners found a way to bring their asset management model to 1,200 advisors in less than a decade. |
Financial Advisor
October 2005
Matthew Hougan |
Shorting ETFs Gets Sold Short Although many advisors are reluctant to short exchange-traded funds (ETFs), it's important to remember that ETFs are less risky on the short side than individual stocks, as they are not susceptible to short squeezes. |
Financial Advisor
August 2012
Jon Beatty |
A Promising Road Advisors are enjoying strong growth despite significant challenges in the financial markets. |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Joel Bruckenstein |
Kicking It Up A Notch Tech upgrades at some of the larger independent broker-dealers. |
Investment Advisor
October 2010
Maya Ivanova |
A Decade of Evolution Advisory practices make gains, but still face challenges |
Financial Advisor
July 2007 |
Advisor Emporium Pershing Launches Managed Account Network... John Hancock Adds Allocation Options... Matrix Buys Interest In Research Firm... etc. |
Registered Rep.
February 25, 2011
Diana Britton |
Financial Advisors Must Prepare For Coming Retirement Advice Boom As Baby Boomers retire, and switch gears from asset accumulation to asset distribution, advisors are going to have to become more sophisticated and efficient in their delivery of financial advice |
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Sydney LeBlanc |
Breaking The Mold The new SMA environment will allow advisors to demonstrate in a truly value-added fashion that they bring a great deal of expertise to the table from which clients can benefit. |
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee. |
Registered Rep.
October 19, 2010
Jed Horowitz |
Genworth Wealth Moves Upscale The allure of wealthy investors and their preference for fee-based advisors has permeated the radar of another provider of investment management solutions. |
Financial Advisor
May 3, 2010 |
Advisor Emporium News: Automatic 401(k) Plans Growing... ProShares Offers Inverse ETFs... First Allied Launches Fund Allocator... Curian Adds New Investment Strategies... Advisor Partners Upgrades Portfolio Program... Van Eck Offers Small-Cap Investments... more... |
Financial Advisor
February 2012 |
Social Media Losing Some Appeal With Financial Advisors Despite the hype about the benefits social media can bring to financial advisors, most advisors don't find it very useful in their businesses. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 1, 2005
Maria Santos |
ACM Targets Broker-Dealers Already used in the bank trust and insurance channels, smartSolutions allows users to manage small investment accounts, including those with assets of less than $100,000. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2011
Tony Davidow |
Watch Your Weight: Sector Allocations By investing in a specific sector, or a group of securities within the same industry, advisors may be able to help their clients take advantage of a market segment that is well positioned for growth. |
