Succession planning always creates complications.
In a period of market volatility and anxiety, a Santa Monica, Calif., investment firm is preparing to expand.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to issue a proposal by summer that would cap 12(b)-1 fees that investors in Class C mutual fund shares are charged, according to the general counsel of the Investment Company Institute.
Providers of exchange traded products are developing investments that give investors the ability to more accurately pinpoint risk.
The hunt for alternatives managers is greater than any other type of manager this year, according to a new survey of consultants' expected searches for 2008.
We are as suspicious of public markets as we are of public toilets.
With stock market volatility on the rise, the time is right for financial advisers to consider convertibles for a place in client portfolios.
The acronym RIA refers, of course, to registered investment advisers.
With investor confidence in the global financial markets at a severe low point, driven even lower last week by the crumbling of Wall Street giant The Bear Stearns Cos. Inc., planners are facing the challenge of how to maintain clients' confidence in the midst of the credit turmoil.
