For the first time, starting in July, Citigroup Inc.'s managed-account platforms will start advising Smith Barney reps and Citi private bankers on when to buy and sell specific money managers and mutual funds for their clients.
The Energy and Tax Extenders Act may be taken up next week by the House of Representatives.
The document-management unit of Compulink Management Center has announced the release of Laserfiche 8.
What would be the financial consequence if one of your clients lost his or her physical and/or mental independence?
RBC is struggling to get the bugs out of its new technology platform.
Jeff Auld, the president of Berthel Fisher and Company Financial Services Inc., has left the company for personal reasons.
What this country needs is a presidential candidate who understands and cares about economics.
The use of alternative hedge-fund-like strategies within mutual funds was a hot topic of discussion last week at the Investment Company Institute's 50th annual general membership meeting in Washington.
BoulevardR.com, an interactive website that has been used primarily as a tool for retirement planning, is launching a three-step process that provides an actionable financial plan prepared by a financial planner for $49.
A portfolio modeling and rebalancing tool is being built into an upcoming Fidelity WealthCentral Platform.
The government should remove obstacles that keep employers from offering 401(k) plans, said Paul Schott Stevens.
The House of Representatives is trying to cripple the experiment with health savings accounts by burdening it with extra layers of bureaucracy.
A hypothetical adviser I'll call Jim French was excited to implement new financial planning software his firm had introduced.
The largest IDB will allow RIAs to hold fee-based assets with outside custodians; it's also rolling out its own custody platform for RIAs later this year.
Wealth management executives at Citigroup and UBS, two of the financial institutions hardest hit by the subprime loan crisis, are working overtime on damage control to protect their lucrative franchises.
Most everyone in the financial industry wants to move from paper to electronic documents, but firms that have rolled out systems to do so — and the broker-dealers providing technical assistance — agree that it will take one to three years to recoup the investment of capital in hardware, in software, and in the time needed to train staff and integrate the new systems into firms' work flow.
Backing up computer files is a vital but tedious way to protect a financial practice.
Independent-contractor broker-dealers are gnashing their teeth over the possible consequences of an updated professional code of ethics for certified financial planners, coming this summer.
