You know who they are and you know they are holding back your practice. Here's some simple steps to improve your staff and start fresh in 2014.
In today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Two big investment houses recommend exiting emerging markets. Also: Credit Suisse offloads risky assets, investment gurus get nervous about 2014, cold weather and a weak economy, and what will cost more this year.
Investors have poured $156.6 billion into alternative investments, including nontraditional bonds, since 2010, according to data from Morningstar Inc. Nearly half of that amount — $74.6 billion — has come in 2013, giving the alternative market total net assets of $227.3 billion. Still, some believe that overdiversifying is unlikely to add value for clients and maintain that sticking to stocks and bonds is enough.
The demand for liquid alternatives has never been higher, and it is drawing in a pack of money managers who are all vying to be leaders of the pack.
Would your adviser spend five days helping you drive to Mexico? How about completing hours of passport paperwork for you to head to Italy, or shredding a car-full of your old documents?
Declining stocks worry people sick, if hospital records are any guide
About 10 million Americans will fork over a bigger slice of their paycheck to Social Security and Medicare taxes this year
Declining stocks worry people sick, if hospital records are any guide. A new study has found that hospitalizations rise on days when shares fall, and “people are hospitalized disproportionately for mental conditions.”
In 2014, Wells Fargo & Co. will require more revenue and set new targets for its largest group of advisers but will also give them more ways to top the hurdle.
Wirehouse agrees to settle SEC charges that it failed to inform investors that a hedge fund influenced the selection of collateral backing two debt products it was selling.
For Mary Beth Storjohann, one of the best parts about being a young, independent RIA is being able to make her own schedules, which allows her to be flexible in meeting with clients and in living a balanced life. Check out how she does it.
Productivity per adviser climbs 11.5%; market gains, asset flows boost the bottom line
The move could happen as early as the fourth quarter. How could this impact its thundering herd of advisers and brokers?
“2014 is going to be a better year,” Martin Feldstein, a professor at Harvard University and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, said .
