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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 Advisor June 2009 Marla Brill |
ETF Portfolios To Go ETF portfolio management services pitch to financial advisors. |
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. |
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 Planning September 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
Double Plays When clients want a total return fund, it may be difficult for advisors to sort out the options. Determining what role a total return fund can play in a client's portfolio requires a deeper understanding of this confusing category. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Neil OHara |
SMAs: Overhyped or Underused? Separately managed accounts are often touted for their tax advantages. But some investors don't maximize that potential. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2005 Al Zdenek |
Stalking the Right SMA Manager For financial advisers, conducting due diligence on managed account managers, the process is more akin to researching hedge funds than mutual funds. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Doling out the Bounty Financial planners have many more investment vehicles to choose from as mutual funds, SMAs and ETFs compete for their assets. While planners have their preferences, new kinds of accounts make it easier to devote some money to each. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Kevin Burke |
Actively Adding Value to Passive Investments Separately managed accounts that invest exclusively in exchange-traded funds are vying for a place at the advisory table, as an increasing number of money managers look to cash in on the popularity of these very cheap, very liquid investments. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Ann Marsh |
What Cachet? The sales pitch for separately managed accounts often goes something like this: "So you want to invest with the big boys but you've only got $100,000 to $200,000?" |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Somnath Basu |
Back To Basics Advisors don't need to rely on complicated models to help clients avert losses. |
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 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. |
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. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Aiming Downmarket Thanks to technological advances and the introduction of multimanager products (so-called multidiscipline accounts, or MDAs), advisors can now put clients into managed accounts with as little as $25,000. |
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 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 Planning January 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2009 The long-term outlook is brighter than the current vista. Markets have always turned up after downturns and there's no reason to think this pattern will end. |
Investment Advisor August 2008 Melanie Waddell |
Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Pam Black |
A Separate Reality The separately managed account revolution might well be sweeping the financial services industry. That transformation, while still somewhat slow, is inexorable, but also incomplete. So far, for the most part, SMAs aren't being used correctly. |
Investment Advisor April 2009 Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Timing Is Everything Now that (nearly) all asset classes have sunk, advisors are rethinking their investment strategies. |
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Ben Warwick |
Investment Advisor's January 2011 Issue: Ben Warwick Won't Compromise on Getting Returns. Period Clients must take risks to make returns. Here's the right way to do it in 2011. |
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. |
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 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 April 2010 Jeff Schlegel |
An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence. |
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? |
Entrepreneur March 2004 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Do It Your Way Tailor your portfolio with separately managed accounts. |
Financial Advisor July 2006 Sydney LeBlanc |
Derivative Use In SMA Portfolios Advisors searching for unique and suitable strategies for SMA clients may find that using derivatives to implement risk management in their portfolios is another way of adding real value as well as portfolio protection in uncertain market environments. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2011 Diana Britton |
Is Tactical Investing Wall Street's Next Clown Act? There's a renewed interest in tactical asset allocation and new products that cater to that method. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Mike Patton |
Way Up The author describes the eight-step process he uses in managing money for his clients. It's worked out pretty well in a difficult environment. |
Financial Advisor February 2005 Sydney LeBlanc |
The "Black Cat" Of Separately Managed Accounts Education can prevent or eliminate myths surrounding managed accounts and help clients take advantage of the benefits they afford. |
Registered Rep. April 14, 2011 Diana Britton |
Advisors Get More Flexible Advisors and investors are turning to mutual funds with more flexible mandates to cushion their portfolios against the unknowns. |
Financial Advisor August 2010 James Picerno |
Searching For Progress Financial innovation is under fire. Failing to beat the market is only one reason. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Kevin Burke |
The SMA Migraine Separate accounts have been the "it" product for the financial advisory business for several years. So, why have money managers cooled to this seemingly irresistible financial confection? |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Marla Brill |
Courting A New Crowd Rydex Investments hopes to move beyond market timers to mainstream financial advisors. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2012 Elizabeth Wine |
SMAs Tough It Out Those managers who rose to the top of the heap in the separately managed accounts industry carefully researched and weighed their options before making their moves. And it wasn't easy. |
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. |
Registered Rep. October 21, 2013 Stan Luxenberg |
A Tactical Turnaround When the market crashed in 2008, most stock funds collapsed. But a handful avoided serious losses, shifting to cash or taking other defensive measures. The winners attracted assets. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 William Harding |
A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments. |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2009 Aaron Pressman |
Allocation Funds Are on the Rise New funds that switch among different asset classes are gaining popularity with investors tired of constant loss. |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2011 Diana Britton |
American Funds: A Victim of Its Own Success? The mutual fund giant's fortunes seem to have turned, with sizeable outflows. |
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 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. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2011 Matthew Lemieux |
The Growth of Non-Traditional Strategies When added to an investment portfolio, non-traditional approaches in mutual funds may create opportunities for return enhancement or risk reduction. |
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? |
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Lauren Young |
Sizing Up Tailored Portfolios A study shows that investors in separately managed accounts like the results. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
An Age-Old Question Age plays an important role in determining asset allocation. The general consensus is, the older you get, the less risk you should take. |
Financial Advisor December 2005 Sydney LeBlanc |
SMAs Make Taxes, Well ... Not So Taxing Here are some strategies for financial advisors to help keep clients' dollars out of harm's way at tax time. |
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Did Asset Allocation Work? Some funds claimed to protect you from the downturn. Did they deliver? |