Are you ready for cost basis reporting?
A "nightmare" is how Shami Kaur, an adviser and certified financial planner with SK Financial Alliance in Cedar Knolls, N.J., describes dealing with cost basis issues and their tax ramifications.
InvestmentNews to survey financial advisors
In partnership with Pershing LLC and CAST Management Consultants, InvestmentNews is conducting a survey to develop a report, "Broker-Dealer of the Future."
Integrated adviser platform exceeds expectations
In a bid to expand planning services for advisers, Linsco/Private Ledger Corp. of Boston and San Diego is now offering WealthVision — a platform that includes a customized version of eMoney Advisor 360, a wealth management solution.
At the bell
The House of Representatives Friday approved a bill that would relieve an estimated 23 million taxpayers from being subject to the alternative minimum tax for a year by a vote of 216-193.
Helping one adviser market to his peers
Bruce Graham doesn't market exclusively to investors. The Orange, Calif.-based adviser, who operates a broker-dealer and a registered investment advisory firm, also markets to other advisers, trying to introduce them to a covered-call program he has run for the last 12 years.
People
New York Life Insurance Co. has appointed Frank Boccio executive vice president and chief administrative officer.
Your neighbor’s wealth: Illusion or reality?
In the 1969 movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a relentlessly effective posse tracks the title outlaws. Butch and Sundance try various subterfuges to shake the posse from their trail, but without success.
Identify six priorities to work through
In the column that ran in the Oct. 29 issue, I discussed our blueprinting process, a series of exercises designed to help you uncover what will make your heart sing. It is Step 1 along a fourfold path to the $10 million secret.
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Adviser to Adviser Webcast: Getting the Most Out of ETFs
Skepticism, savvy needed in the boardroom
The subprime-mortgage fiasco has revealed several flaws in the financial system that must be corrected if similar disasters are to be avoided in the future.