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Advisers finding benefits by being LinkedIn
Like LinkedIn’s 13 million other registered users, financial advisers are discovering that online networking can pay off.
Migrating to specialized planning software
Financial advisers sometimes outgrow relationships — including relationships with software.
Subprime exposure worries some advisers
Client portfolios may be affected by the fallout from turmoil in the subprime mortgage market — but advisers aren’t exactly sure where the problems may lie and don’t believe their software tools can give them timely answers.
Technology failure thwarts Linsco
An online-access snafu put a glitch in Linsco/Private Ledger Corp.’s plans to compete with the largest firms in the industry and left 7,000 financial advisers unable to place trades, view accounts or perform other routine tasks for most of last week.
LPL experiences systems failure
A massive snafu is stopping 10,000 advisers affiliated with Linsco/Private Ledger Corp. from doing business online.
More adviser tools coming to smart phones
Financial advisers who use a BlackBerry or other smart phone soon will be able to access a wider range of financial tools and applications.
Neovest offers trading tools
In wake of the BoNY-Mellon merger, third-party trading technology has been made available to assist customers of Pershing.
NASDAQ rolls out online widgets
The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. will make a wide range of its data tools available via the Web.
Pentegra teams up with BISYS
Another partnership has been formed in preparation for impending boomer retirement rush.
Award highlights WiMAX investment
Aperto Networks has been named as the Top WiMAX Company in India by VOICE&DATA magazine in its latest annual survey of multiple technology sectors in India.
Albridge rolls out new calculation choices
Advisers can now produce on-the-fly internal rate of return and daily time weighted return rates of return for their clients.
More fund companies to offer 130/30s
Tough to explain PHILADELPHIA — More mutual fund companies soon will offer individual investors access to…
SROs issue electronic-communications guidance
IRVINE, Calif. — NASD and the New York Stock Exchange this month released long-awaited guidance to brokerage firms on how to supervise electronic communications.
Bradley on hot seat at TD Ameritrade
J. Thomas Bradley Jr., president of TD Ameritrade Institutional, is feeling the heat from financial advisers as he tries to balance their concerns and the demands of his parent firm, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., to continue to increase assets.
Schwab cuts PortfolioCenter price
SAN FRANCISCO — Schwab Performance Technologies Inc. is waiving the $10,000 license charge for its PortfolioCenter portfolio accounting software for advisers with 50 or fewer accounts.
Association debuts benchmarking tool
The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors has launched a new benchmarking tool that will help advisers measure their practices against those of fellow NAPFA members.
Googling for financial advisers
The owners of the world’s largest search engine are taking dead aim at Yahoo! Finance, and many financial advisers are taking notice.
For advisers, failing to plan is planning to fail
WASHINGTON — Financial advice professionals who routinely log 60-hour workweeks may be spinning their wheels, a new report suggests.
ICE to inaugurate New York trading floor
IntercontinentalExchange Inc. will open a trading center in New York's World Financial Center on April 12 to serve qualified professional traders.
Fundamental differences over Schwab funds
Charles R. Schwab last week called the fundamental indexes underlying his company’s three newest mutual funds “a better mousetrap,” but The Vanguard Group Inc. and Barclays Global Investors smell a rat.
