Beacon finds 'client onboarding' has replaced social-media archiving as brokers' biggest technology challenge.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Where investors go when BRICs crack. Plus: How advisers can &mdash; and should &mdash; deal with male and female clients, mounting sanctions drive Russia toward China for economic help, investor class-action lawsuits spike, and saving money on travel.
Four companies working to unify products to better meet adviser needs; system due out later this year
Online adviser Personal Capital announces an app for smartwatches, and the advice industry ponders the future of wearable technology in client service.
22 states do not recognize same-sex marriage, and some require LGBT filers to complete 'dummy' federal returns. Tax year 2013 was the first of what may be many confusing filing seasons.
There are good books that make you think differently about the world, and occasionally great books that really make you question the underpinnings of what you think reality is. The new Michael Lewis book, “Flash Boys,” falls into the latter camp.
Acquisition could put the fund tracker in the lead of the portfolio accounting and reporting business.
Designed to help retirement plan advisers gain clients as demand for fiduciaries grows
Executives across the industry, from wirehouses to independent and regional firms, are enjoying fatter paychecks and bigger bonuses as advisers become a more important part of firms' balance sheets. <i>(Don't miss some rather outlandish <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20140324/FREE/324009999/PH" target="_blank">top executive benefits</a>.)</i>
Three clients of former broker at Hancock unit receive award for losses in failed land deals.
UBS Puerto Rico closed-end muni bond fund investors are losing billions; new research pegs losses at $1.66 billion over the first nine months of 2013.
The woes stemming from UBS AG's unit in Puerto Rico over the sale of local, closed-end municipal bond funds have landed squarely in the lap of UBS brokers and financial advisers in the island commonwealth.
Move designed to create distance between investment creation and distribution.
New software partners now sync assets and risk score on a nightly basis.
A former Wells Fargo trainee has sued the firm, claiming that its effort to get back $50K in training costs violates labor law. If the claim sticks, brokers could have a tough time recouping such costs from ex-employees who leave firms early.
Combined companies will have $220B in assets; Putnam chief Robert Reynolds named CEO of Great-West Lifeco U.S.
Financial advisers will have new ways to manage data and gauge clients' emotions, thanks to new tech developments