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Registered Rep. September 30, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
Do Retail Financial Advisors Have an "Unhealthy Focus?" The Financial Times suggests the way financial products and services are sold need to be completely overhauled. |
Investment Advisor December 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
Tech-Savvy Advisors A new report finds that the best-managed financial advisory firms have clear and long-term strategies for their technology investments. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Philip Palaveev |
Tortoise or Hare Which business model is most acceptable to investors? And which to advisors? |
Financial Advisor January 2012 Evan Simonoff |
Through The Fog Since the middle of the summer, financial advisors and their clients have been whipsawed by equity market volatility as they have gotten bombarded by a continual stream of negative news, most of it from Europe. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Donna Mitchell |
Roame on RIAs Conversations about change in the registered investment advisory space are constant these days, thanks to volatile markets, new products and demographic shifts. What sort of future will these changes create for the industry? |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Somnath Basu |
Will The Economy Double-Dip? Other than the stock market, most indicators reflect a trough, not the early stages of a growth cycle. Here's what advisors should watch for. |
Registered Rep. May 31, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Cold Call: Michael Kitces Michael Kitces, Research Director of Pinnacle Advisory Group talks about business plans for advisors. |
Investment Advisor July 2010 David DeVoe |
Options, Options, Options Big banks used to be the main acquirers of advisory firms, but in the past few years, the consolidators and bigger advisors have recognized the opportunity as well. |
Investment Advisor November 2009 Angela Herbers |
The Fast Track: The M Word Cometh Older and younger advisors both have a new appreciation for marketing. |
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. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2012 Diana Britton |
A Package Deal Most advisors would say they want to do what's best for their clients. But if that's the case, they better not manage their clients' money on their own; better leave that to the home office, new research from Cerulli Associates shows. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
5 Success Tips From High-Performing Advisors A new study of high-earning advisors offers 5 clear success tips. |
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. |
Registered Rep. October 31, 2014 |
Advisor Views on Alternatives While 70 percent of advisors recommend some form of alternative products to their clients, it's a select group. |
Registered Rep. August 25, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Better Economic Times Ahead? Your Clients Don't Think So. Advisors seem more optimistic about the economy than their own clients, according to a recent survey. |
Registered Rep. May 14, 2015 Megan Leonhardt |
LPL Incentivizes Hybrid RIAs to Bring Assets Over LPL Financial is offering its hybrid advisors up to $100,000 to shift their assets held elsewhere to LPL's advisory platforms, according to an internal communication sent to advisors Wednesday. |
Investment Advisor October 2010 Maya Ivanova |
A Decade of Evolution Advisory practices make gains, but still face challenges |
Financial Planning August 1, 2013 Rachel F. Elson |
Mark Tibergien Wants Your Assets. Here's What He's Offering Mark Tibergien, CEO of Pershing Advisor Solutions, wants to custody more client assets. Here s what he s offering in return. |
Investment Advisor March 2008 Angela Herbers |
Words of Wisdom Keeping older professionals in the industry should be a priority. And if we don't do something to rectify this situation sooner rather than later, we face the prospect of watching the experience of a whole generation literally walk out the door. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
More Money in Motion During the financial crisis, the majority of high-net-worth clients maintained accounts with at least two financial advisors, Boston-based Cerulli Associates said in a January report. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
For Advisors, a Client-Centered Shift More advisors are shifting toward a broader approach and away from investment management. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Juliette Fairley |
Advisors Take Fund Research Into Their Own Hands Last year, the ARGI Financial Group, a Louisville, Ky.-based advisory firm with $400 million in assets under management, decided to take a new approach to researching mutual fund companies -- go directly to the source for information. |
Registered Rep. February 5, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Gen Y Advisors Unhappy with Independence At a time when the financial services industry is busy courting young advisors, a new study by Pershing shows that Generation Y wealth managers may be slightly more attracted to wirehouses than the independent space. |
Financial Advisor September 2004 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Just as it's a mark of the U.S. economy's strength that we recovered from the biggest bubble in history with only a mild recession, it's a mark of our resilience and adaptability that we've adjusted to a world where the threat of terrorism is a part of our daily lives. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 |
60 Seconds with Bill Carey (Head of Fidelity's RIA group) The former president of Fidelity's institutional retirement business and a 12-year veteran of the firm talks about his plans for the advisory unit and the challenges confronting advisors. |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Ivanova & Kahler |
The ABCs Of Retirees To meet the needs of retiree clients, financial advisors will need to beef up their knowledge not only of investment-related retirement issues, but also non-investment areas. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz |
More Than Equal A study of the role of the female financial advisor. The research compares female to male advisors and looks at the varying performance levels of women advisors. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr |
Help From My Friends Here are some of the most important issues to consider when working with a financial institution. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2013 Lorie Konish |
Five Questions with Susan Bradley Susan Bradley, founder of the Sudden Money Institute, discusses how advisors can best work with clients who win the lottery or inherit a large sum. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
The Best in the Business Financial advisors can learn much from studying the business practices of their most successful peers. |
Registered Rep. June 23, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Too Much Client Hand-Holding, Not Enough Prospecting The nervous-client-syndrome has yet to wear off. That's according to a new survey that says most advisors are still spending the majority of their time with existing clients rather then generating new business. |
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015 |
2015 Broker Report Card: Fiduciary Worries The Department of Labor is set to rule that brokers working with retirement accounts meet a fiduciary standard. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Angela Herbers |
Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 Angela Herbers |
The Fast Track: Blue Chips Overly corporate firms aren't keeping young advisors happy. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
Social Value A joint study of 144 registered investment advisors by Pershing Advisor Solutions and Aite Group offers evidence that social media is more than an afterthought for advisors. Instead, it's a useful tool for reaching potential customers. |
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015 |
2015 Broker Report Card: Show Me The Money Advisors' gross production varied widely by firm in this year's survey results. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Lorie Konish |
Five Questions with Matt Matrisian The director of practice management at Genworth Financial offers advisors tips on avoiding common blind spots. |
Financial Advisor May 2012 |
Advisors, Clients See Portfolios Differently Advisors say their clients are fixated more on shorter-term concerns such as one-year returns (54%), their portfolio's absolute returns (49%) and portfolio volatility (41%). |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Grove & Prince |
Survival Of The Fittest Whatever plateau your advisory business may have reached, whatever ceiling you might have bumped up against -- now is the time to blast off or blast through. |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Bob Clark |
The Trust Threat Financial advisors need to rethink adding trust services to their offerings. |
Registered Rep. October 6, 2015 Megan Leonhardt |
Advisors Working with Spouse See Success Among advisors working as part of a team, the most successful are husbands and wives, according to new research by PriceMetrix. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2013 Mason Braswell |
Five Questions with Robert J. Ellis Robert J. Ellis discusses why he believes his undergraduate course could change the wealth management demographic. As the advisor force ages, firms are faced with the challenge of recruiting and training the next generation. |
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 Planning December 1, 2007 Joseph J. Duran |
Are You a Dinosaur? One of the most important keys to longevity in any industry is to recognize and adapt to major structural shifts in order to avoid becoming extinct. As financial advice changes, it's wise to heed this basic rule of nature. |
Registered Rep. October 28, 2015 |
Live Oak Bank: Open Access Lending "The aging demographic of the investment advisory industry is severely under-financed. Live Oak Bank saw this as an opportunity to address an underserved need," said managing director Jason Carroll. |
Entrepreneur June 2009 Asheesh Advani |
Put Your Advisory Board to Work It's time to rethink the roll of advisors and how they are compensated. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2013 |
Women Advisors Forum: A Growing Network The Women Advisors Forum, SourceMedia's online community for female financial advisors, hit its milestone of 1,000 when Jennifer Riek, a certified divorce financial analyst at Marcum Financial Services in Melville, N.Y., joined the group. |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince |
Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2010 Morgan Housel |
When Higher GDP Growth Isn't a Welcome Sign Great growth in all the wrong places. |