National Planning Holdings Inc. has begun a program to hire and manage an in-house licensed and trained assistant.
With no permanent repeal of the estate tax in sight, advisers are appeasing worried clients by putting new twists on old estate-planning tools.
Two new tax efficiency tools are available to help advisers in portfolio management, specifically with the complex decision making as-sociated with their clients' stock holdings.
Dwindling assets and intense regulatory scrutiny continue to take their toll on mutual fund B shares, which at the current rate of attrition are likely to become nearly extinct inside five years.
Here is a quick quiz that will test your qualifications to fill either of the two current openings on the Securities and Exchange Commission:
As we spoke, I could tell by the glint in his eye and his body language that Michael L. Weiss, chief executive of Frontier Financial Advisors LLC, is a helluva salesman. The fact that he was several miles away was just a technicality.
It is difficult to evaluate funds and strategies that haven't yet established a track record, but the <b>Aston/Neptune International Fund (ANIIX) </b>comes to market with a certain pedigree and a legitimate strategy for investing outside the United States.
Let's say you paid $7 each back in early 2003 for 1,000 shares of a struggling Cupertino, Calif.-based personal-computer and consumer electronics company that was trading at a fire sale price based on a classic fundamental- valuation metric.
There just aren't enough planners to go around, according to leaders of the financial planning profession. Speaking this month in New York, Nicholas Nicolette, president of the Denver-based Financial Planning Association, said some firms will need to double or triple in size in the near future.
With the third-quarter-earnings season in full swing, financial advisers and analysts are finding similarities between this technology boom and the previous one — and they can't help but wonder if another bust is on the horizon.
