After the turbulent year that many advisers have had, your goals should be to stay focused and keep things simple. Your business plan should include dividing clients into appropriate categories, developing a detailed communications plan with investment and lifestyle ideas, setting goals for assets under management, creating tiered service levels, and devising a top-client asset retention strategy.
American International Group Inc. today said it would sell its Hong Kong consumer finance unit to the China Construction Bank Asia Corp. Ltd.
The stock market lost ground for a third straight day as investors grew uneasy about a rising dollar and spiking demand for the safest government debt.
The financial advisory industry is rallying its troops against a controversial SEC rule proposal that would subject thousands of investment advisers to surprise exams by outside auditors.
A New Jersey-based financial adviser has admitted operating a scheme that defrauded investors of more than $9 million.
Stocks slid in early trading Wednesday after a report showed housing starts dropped unexpectedly in October.
U.S. insurers may improve their financial flexibility as state insurance regulators change the way they evaluate capital requirements for residential-mortgage-backed securities, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.
Sex, violence and stranger-originated life insurance are at the center of a new novel, “The Death Bond Conspiracy,” written by an unusual author — an insurance agent.
