Advisers once annoyed by LPL Financial's decision to move brokers from three acquired firms off Pershing LLC's clearing platform say they're pleasantly surprised by how the independent broker-dealer has eased their transition.
Before calling a financial adviser recently, I checked out his website, as I always do to prepare for an interview.
Central to Commonwealth's updated platform are householding and better tool integration
Okay, I can't help myself. It is starting already, iPadAppMania (not to be confused with the iPad'o'mania referred to earlier).
For advisers trying to convince themselves (read that as rationalize) that they can buy the new iPad to replace their laptop — don't bother, you can't.
In yet another example of the ever-expanding power of social media, a startup investment platform is hoping to invade the mutual fund industry's turf by hooking up investors directly with money managers via such social-networking websites as Facebook and Yahoo.
FundQuest is partnering with Envestnet Asset Management Inc. to offer advisory firms additional IT resources.
Here's some additional information that was provided by Fabeetle.com founder Brandon Gadoci during the reporting of this week's <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20100321/FREE/303219969" target=”_blank”>Tech Update</a> that we could not get into the story.
Law enforcement officials go undercover to catch fraudsters, scammers and crooks
It appears that Fabeetle.com has gone live. I've been awaiting more information on the site since <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20090913/REG/309139956"" target="”_blank”" rel="noopener noreferrer">first writing about it</a> back in October.
Everybody dies. Not everybody plans for it, though. That's where financial advisers come in. Few professionals are as well positioned to offer guidance on this sensitive topic — or to steer clients to specialists such as estate planners or attorneys. Indeed, financial advisers, who meet with clients on a regular basis, sometimes for years, can play a pivotal role in getting them to get their affairs in order long before they face their own mortality.
If such overplayed images as Roman columns, boats, or chess pieces populate your firm's website, it is definitely time for a redesign.
Many financial advisers who attended the Technology Tools for Today conference last week are looking to squeeze as much money as they can from their precious technology budgets.
An Indian man has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to access online brokerage accounts to jack up stock prices and reap thousands of dollars in illegal profits.
The top-down macroeconomic themes all tilt in favor of globally diversified cash-rich companies, according to Karl O. Mills, president and chief investment officer at Jurika Mills & Keifer LLC.
Roland Greco, an adviser, recently wrote me for assistance in dealing with the mountains of paper in his office.
Registered representatives should be careful about mixing personal use of social-networking sites with business use, a Finra executive said today.
Financial advisers are scratching their heads as they try to decipher the compliance and regulatory ramifications of a privacy fiasco with Google's Buzz.
