Many plan sponsors aren't focused on the investment strategies behind target date funds, creating an opportunity for financial advisers to play a greater role in the retirement-planning process, according to a survey by JPMorgan Asset Management Inc. of New York.
Advisers find themselves in unusual situations in this roller coaster financial market, and some are offering advice — which might contradict conventional wisdom.
Actively managed exchange traded funds, which were introduced this year, haven't caught fire, but that didn't stop Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC from launching its fifth such ETF last month.
The election of Barack Obama has given a new "green" light to environmental investing, and financial advisers are taking notice.
Two recent surveys lend credence to suggestions that the Wall Street meltdown may drive more financial advisers to independent firms from wirehouses.
When a client recently told her adviser that she would be losing her public relations job in six months, Morris Armstrong gave her advice that he never thought he would dispense: He told the single mother, who had been contributing significantly to her 401(k) plan, to stop.
Charles G. Goldman's appointment last week to run the RIA custody and correspondent clearing businesses of Fidelity Investments presents a challenge to The Charles Schwab Corp., his former employer, and highlights contrasting strategies as the discount brokerage giants battle for assets from registered investment advisers, wealth managers and corporate retirement plan sponsors.
To attract disaffected wirehouse reps, more independent financial firms are signing on to the industry's recruitment protocol.
With the global financial markets extending their record-level volatility and generally downward spirals, at least one industry is making a case for space exploration investing.
October sales of new homes fell an estimated 5.3% to their lowest level in 17 years, the Department of Commerce reported today.
