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FINTECH AUG 25, 2013
When it comes to mobile technology, advisers playing catch-up

Advisers have failed to connect with clients and prospects through this ever-growing medium

By Michael Shagrin
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 25, 2013
Rethinking retirement planning

Maybe it's time to rethink the notion that retirement means never working and update the words and tools advisers use to develop financial plans. Mary Beth Franklin explains.

By Mary Beth Franklin
FINTECH AUG 25, 2013
LPL ratchets up effort to "mobilize' its troops

By DJAMIESON
Brokerages charging into social media
FINTECH AUG 25, 2013
Brokerages charging into social media

Social media is finally getting respect among IBDs and wirehouses as a legitimate and even necessary part of marketing and business development.

By Janowski Davis
FINTECH AUG 25, 2013
Capturing conversations

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 25, 2013
Take Five: REITs act as hedge

Real estate best equipped to handle jump in rates, portfolio manager says.

By Jeff Benjamin
OPINION AUG 25, 2013
Time to dust off your continuity plan

The time to check your business continuity plan isn't when it needs to be implemented, but when things are calm. Like now.

By MFXFeeder
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 25, 2013
LPL CEO on tech, a bank, regulators

Catching up with Mark Casady at the firm's annual adviser conference.

By DJAMIESON
ALTERNATIVES AUG 23, 2013
Finra warns on private-placement investments

Warning on eve of new regulations allowing more investors access.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
EQUITIES AUG 23, 2013
The Takeaway: The Ballmer Era at Microsoft c'est fini

By Joshua Brown
EQUITIES AUG 23, 2013
The Takeaway: Nasdaq reopens to wild applause

By Joshua Brown
FINTECH AUG 23, 2013
Engagement is a mouse click away

By MFXFeeder
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 23, 2013
LPL to break into estate planning for mass affluent

Subsidiary Private Trust Co. putting IRA into a packaged product.

By Darla Mercado
FINTECH AUG 22, 2013
Don't wait for Washington — jump in to social media

Expert suggests advisers build presence on the web immediately to reach clients and prospects.

By Liz Skinner
FINTECH AUG 22, 2013
At Texas Tech, social media takes center stage

Social media enters the curricula for financial planning students at Texas Tech, as students will get first hand lessons on how to utilize social networks in the financial business. See also: <b><a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20130822/TECH/130829973&quot;>Expert urges advisers to adopt social media.</b></a>

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
FINTECH AUG 22, 2013
YCharts: Bloomberg for the rest of us?

A data service providing real time market info -- at a fraction of the cost of that more-famous terminal

By Janowski Davis
FINTECH AUG 22, 2013
Advisers discuss the operational complexities of trading

Breakfast at the Envestnet | Tamarac summit last week turned into a technology commiseration session.

By Janowski Davis
FINTECH AUG 21, 2013
MoneyGuidePro takes automating financial plans one step forward

Tool allows advisers to connect the dots between plan an action item.

By Michael Shagrin
EQUITIES AUG 21, 2013
The Takeaway: Prepare thyself for the bond wars!

By Joshua Brown
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION AUG 21, 2013
Sifma pushing regulators to end poverty plea of brokers

Industry group sees trouble when brokers get out of paying back notes.

By DJAMIESON