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Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Staffing: The Next Generation Early in the life cycle of a financial planning firm, once it grows beyond a few seasoned principals, comes the day you hire your first new young associate planner. It's an important step for your firm, and for the profession.   |
Registered Rep.
March 4, 2011
Diana Britton |
New ETF Tools Could Boost ETF Assets, Smaller ETF Players New ETF analysis tools introduced last month from Morningstar and IndexUniverse may attract more assets to ETFs and expand the pool of ETFs that financial advisors use in client portfolios, said three ETF consultants |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
How to Find the Perfect ETF A new method rates ETFs on how well they get the job done. |
Registered Rep.
July 23, 2010
Brad Zigler |
An ETF Commission War Is Brewing There's something afoot in the ETF space that's going to challenge reps and advisors to create value-for-money propositions for their services. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009 |
Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more... |
Financial Advisor
December 2010
Jeff Schlegel |
Opening The Doors The industry needs to attract younger advisors, but do opportunities exist? |
Financial Advisor
November 2008 |
Frontline News News for the Financial Industry: Tumult Could Expand Ranks Of RIAs... M&A Activity Remains Healthy... Independent B-Ds: Don't Tread On Us... Who Has The Most Satisfied Advisors?... The Business Of Serving Business Owners... etc. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2013
Allan S. Roth |
ETF Fees Drop Amid Competitive Battle In a remarkably short period, the playing field for the lowest-cost ETFs has changed dramatically. |
Financial Advisor
October 2010 |
Frontline News New SEC requirements that financial advisors create a plain-English version of Form ADV Part 2... Fiduciary Standard Lobbying Season... Does Schwab's Purchase Of An RIA Portend A New Trend?... etc. |
Financial Advisor
February 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial advisory industry: Fiduciary Network Buys Stake In Brouwer, Janachowski... Morningstar Names Top Fund Managers... Advisors Gather At Tech Show... State Of The Industry... etc. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Evan Simonoff |
M&A Game Changer Leading custodians in the RIA space are offering acquisition financing to firms that do business with them. |
Investment Advisor
February 2010
James J. Green |
Schwab Keeps Up the Price Pressure Cuts equity commissions to $8.95 per trade; rolls out more commission-free ETFs. |
Registered Rep.
April 3, 2012
Diana Britton |
Caution: Contents May Be Hot ETF managed portfolios -- separately managed accounts with over half of their assets in ETFs -- are among the latest hot products everyone is talking about. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010
Elizabeth Wine |
ETFs and Closed-End Funds: New Strategies for a New Day The range of ETFs continues to grow and advisors are graduating to the next level of sophistication, from the traditional use of gaining quick access to a sector or country, to now delivering alpha to clients. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Christopher O'Leary |
Going All the Way Across the country, registered rep employees of national broker/dealers daydream of chucking it all and going off on their own. But how far do you go? Which is the best model for keeping the most of what your business generates? |
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2015
Jerry Gleeson |
No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2011
Elizabeth Wine |
The ETF Mousetrap: If You Build It, They Will Come Regardless of how the actively managed ETF experiment turns out, observers say the industry will keep cranking out more and more complicated products. |
Financial Advisor
September 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial services industry: M&A Talks Hit Many Roadblocks... Ameriprise Buys H&R Block's Advisor Business... Morningstar Buys Developer Of dbCAMS+... Securities America To Buy Brecek & Young... etc. |
Financial Advisor
August 2006
Matthew Hougan |
Too Much Of A Good Thing? Do the new leveraged ETFs have a place in the financial advisor's toolbox? |
Registered Rep.
August 18, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Market Turmoil Could Slow Advisor M&A Two industry experts expect merger and acquisition activity involving registered investment advisors will drop this year if the current volatility in the stock market stretches into the coming months. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007
Marla Brill |
The New Indexing Maze The mushrooming ETF market has spawned a new breed of indexes that represent a radical departure from traditional benchmarks in both their construction and purpose. |
Financial Advisor
October 2011
Bruce W. Fraser |
Lost In The Crowd For all their risks, preferred ETFs offer high yields, good liquidity and diversification. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
ETF Mania! As the number of exchange-traded funds explodes, planners are deploying them to bring sophisticated institutional strategies to affluent clients. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008 |
Independent Together The "RIA-in-a-box" model will attract plenty of wirehouse reps who may have previously balked at the idea of going completely independent, fearing they were unprepared to run their own businesses. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Evan Simonoff |
The Big Chill While the financial advisor community and their clients have avoided most of the mortgage-related problems, advisory firms' merger and acquisition activity is suddenly becoming a victim of fixed-income market paralysis. |
Financial Advisor
May 2010
Gail Liberman |
Understanding Indexes Popularity, turnover, structure and other factors affect index funds and ETFs. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2006
Donald Jay Korn |
Letter Perfect As exchange-traded funds (ETFs) proliferate, financial planners find that they're useful for alpha as well as beta. |
Financial Advisor
September 2005
Bruce W. Fraser |
How To Survive The SEC Assault Advisors cite a new, more demanding compliance environment. Despite the extra financial and time burden, many advisors feel much better about their businesses, having gone through the compliance process. |
Financial Advisor
April 2010
Marla Brill |
A Good Complement More advisors think both bond mutual funds and ETFs belong in client portfolios. |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Matt Hougan |
Death And Taxes? Capital gains distributions. Dividend taxes. 1099s. The very words send a shiver down the spine of prudent investors. What's an advisor to do? Well for starters, you should take a close look at exchange-traded funds (ETFs). |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2010
Stan Luxenberg |
How To Size Up An ETF Advisors remain divided about ETFs. At one end of the spectrum a growing number of advisors are putting all their assets in ETFs. At the other extreme are those who steer completely away from the funds. A third group shops selectively. |
On Wall Street
July 1, 2011
Carl Resnick |
Like A Stock, But Different Advisors looking for cost-effective options for building diversified portfolios are continuing to turn to exchange-traded funds. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2013
Joseph Lisanti |
As ETF Fees Drop, New Issues to Consider Expense cuts and other factors have advisors recalculating which funds have the best payoff for clients. |
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Eric Rasmussen |
Wish Upon An 'IAR' RIA or IAR? Registered investment advisor or independent advisor representative; the anagram you choose will depend on how big you are and how independent you want to be. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
William Atkinson |
Pick Me Financial planners have their own processes for selecting individual stocks for their clients. And given that mutual funds have been around for decades, planners also have their favorite fund families. However, ETFs are a different animal. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
RIA M&A Hits Record in 2010, More To Come In 2011 Registered investment advisory firms were furiously busy getting hitched last year: they did the highest number of merger and acquisition deals recorded in at least seven years. |
Financial Advisor
June 2009
Marla Brill |
ETF Portfolios To Go ETF portfolio management services pitch to financial advisors. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
November 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
ETF Education The industry has fallen short in informing investors about exchange-traded funds, according to a Rydex survey of 500 mutual fund investors. |
Financial Advisor
October 2008 |
Frontline News News: Wall Street Meltdown Could Swell RIA Ranks... Citigroup Defection Illustrates Talent Flight To RIAs... Merger Creates $1 Billion Fee-Only RIA Firm... Boosting Retirement Savings Longevity... Is The Commodities Party Over?... Hometown Investing Can Spoil A Portfolio... |
Financial Advisor
July 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial community: CFP Board's New Conduct Standards... SEC Examining More RIAs... Advisors Await Word On New Privacy Regulations... First Western Buys Fourth RIA Firm, Doubles Size...etc. |
| Financial Advisor |
Frontline News News of interest to advisors: Clients want insured investments... Francais succeeds Kochis as Aspiriant CEO... Financial Planning Association's Top Lobbyist Stepping Down... New Web sites keep advisors honest... more... |
Financial Advisor
February 2010
Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Financial Services News: Branch Managers Break Away To Independence... Call For Fiduciary Standard Unites Disparate Forces (Sort Of)... Independent Contractor Status Under Review... Retirement Planning Industry To Be A Top Performer In New Decade... more... |
| Financial Advisor |
Frontline News Independent B-Ds Inside... States Gear Up To Examine More Advisors... IRS To Regulate All Tax Preparers... Guggenheim To Buy Security Benefit... RIA M&A Activity Down In '09... Majority Of Advisors See Growth In '10... more... |
Financial Advisor
December 2008
Marla Brill |
ETF Growth Expected What was bad news for the stock market in 2008 may prove to be good news for ETFs in 2009. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007 |
Frontline News Kochis Fitz To Merge With Quintile... Practicing The Best Practices... United Capital Buys Four Advisory Firms... Herd Mentality Linked With Keeping Up With The Joneses... etc. |
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
July 2011
Marla Brill |
Schwab's Low-Cost ETF Gamble Schwab is undercutting competitors with low fees, but still faces a challenge in differentiating its ETFs from those offered by more established players. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2007
Zoe Van Schyndel |
The Changing Face of ETFs Knowing ETF managers' strengths can help you pick the right funds. |
