To communicate with both ends of the client spectrum, top advisers employ technology to make processes predictable, sustainable and repeatable
Just as the Great Depression scared an entire generation away from the stock market, recent events may drive today's investors to the sidelines — forever.
A financial adviser to former Major League baseball player Mo Vaughn is claiming that he threatened and intimidated her after she tried to rein in his "insane spending habits."
State securities regulators are asking Congress for expanded powers to review offerings of private securities.
Two new customer relationship management systems could help advisory firms save time and reduce overhead.
As part of a massive overhaul of its U.S. wealth management business, UBS AG is set to shed up to 2,000 jobs, shrink its regional operations and consolidate a number of branches here over the next several months.
The government's Public-Private Investment Program — designed to remove bad assets from bank balance sheets and promote lending — will help turn around the economy in the short run, but perhaps not long-term, according to financial advisers.
How can you get the most out of your technology investments?
Distribution Solutions, which is being beta tested, is designed to help advisers solve several financial planning conundrums such as comparing lump sum payout tax consequences with rolling the assets into an individual retirement account.
Requiring annuities or other fixed-income products be included as an option in 401(k) plans is being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, said Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J., chairman of the committee’s Health, Employment Labor and Pensions Subcommittee.
Nearly 200 corporations have already stopped matching workers' contributions to their 401(k) plans and the number could very well accelerate — and possibly double — in the coming months.
Lower fees for defined contribution retirement plans are related to factors such as the size of the plan, higher contribution rates by employers and employees, and greater use of automatic enrollment.
Morgan Keegan has been stung in another arbitration case involving its bond funds, this time losing a $950,000 claim to an ex-NFL Pro Bowl star with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Woodrow Wilson may have been right when he said, "Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."
Trust is a five-syllable word. That word is fiduciary. As investors discuss "gates" in hedge funds and losses in portfolios, the term "in a client's best interests" is open to debate.
