Recent studies have shown clients are considering moving assets or changing advisors. This month, we've been focused on rejuvenating your office and practice without breaking the bank
No doubt about it, social networking is one hot topic right now. Financial advisers, though, have been relatively slow to embrace sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
WealthTouch Inc., which offers a consolidated investment-reporting platform on the web for the wealth management industry, today announced that it has raised $11 million in private money to allow it to expand in Europe.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday it earned $3.28 billion in the last three months of 2009, extending a winning streak for big U.S. banks.
As the clock wound down on the Federal estate tax late last year, some financial advisers and attorneys saw an opportunity for their high-net-worth clients in this extremely muddled situation.
Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag.
The Financial Planning Association is expected today to unveil a major research study on customer relationship management. ActiFi Inc., a financial services technology consulting firm, partnered with FPA in completing the 85 page comparative analysis of CRM packages available to the advisory market.
Women who have recently lost a spouse may confront many changes in their daily lives and need financial support and advice.
BrightScope Inc., a provider of 401(k) plan ratings, last week introduced an online tool that provides investors and financial advisers with personalized data about how much they are paying in fees in retirement plans.
The upset election last week in Massachusetts of Scott Brown to the Senate will have a more modest impact on financial services regulatory-reform legislation than on health care reform.
In a rarity, an arbitrator last month cited elder abuse in tripling the damages a discount securities firm must pay a 95-year-old client.
Financial planners around the country say there is a sense that people are returning to basic principles: Maximize savings; limit use of credit cards; keep a substantial emergency fund; understand risk; diversify; and don't short-cut your way to wealth.
With anticipation building about its $600 million IPO, LPL Investment Holdings Inc. last week said that it is acquiring the assets of National Retirement Partners Corp., an advisory and brokerage firm that specializes in defined-contribution retirement plans.
Vanguard CEO McNabb warns against the regulation of futures. For McNLeverage is the real issue, he says
The independent broker-dealer industry took a giant step backward last year, with the largest 25 firms collectively reporting a 10.3% drop in gross revenue.
As the stock market was climbing to its historical peak in late summer 2007, GunnAllen Financial Inc. executives told people that the firm was working to put the worst elements from its brief, intense past of breakneck growth behind it.
The biggest-producing branch of dead-in-the water GunnAllen Financial Inc. is heading to a new independent broker-dealer, Aegis Capital Corp.
Embattled firm said to be in net capital violation after eleventh-hour effort failed to raise fresh funds
Massachusetts widens the net in its ongoing probe of private placements gone bad.
