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OPINION APR 05, 2017
Is your pricing primitive or purposeful?

The brain's limbic system leaves many advisers reacting to client questions about costs in fight-or-flight mode instead of with determined business practices.

By Stephanie Bogan
OPINION APR 03, 2017
Be vigilant about scams and fraud involving elder clients

If you succeed in warning clients away from just one scam or fraud, their gratitude, respect and loyalty will be unsurpassed

By Amy Florian
OPINION MAR 29, 2017
Pooled employer plans set to dominate small 401(k) market

By Fred Barstein
OPINION MAR 19, 2017
Discrimination against women advisers via harsher punishment must stop

This black eye for the industry cannot continue

By crain-api
OPINION MAR 16, 2017
Confidence: How you can give it to young financial advisers and watch them run with it

The InvestmentNews 40 Under 40 project is back, and we need your help finding and bolstering the next generation of talent.

By CNELSON
OPINION MAR 15, 2017
Keep calm and carry on with both commissions and fees

Advisers must act in the best interest of clients and present them with all available retirement income offerings

By John Kennedy
Why the best portfolios mix active and passive investments
OPINION MAR 15, 2017
Why the best portfolios mix active and passive investments

Beating a benchmark is an empty victory if an investor cannot meet their financial priorities.

By Andrew Crowell
6 essential ingredients to life insurance advice
OPINION MAR 14, 2017
6 essential ingredients to life insurance advice

Life insurance is the last, largest, most-neglected asset on clients' balance sheets and in desperate need of management.

By Barry Flagg
OPINION MAR 03, 2017
Point-Counterpoint: Should employers have a fiduciary duty to their 401(k) plans?

Two experts on retirement law square off on the question of fiduciary duty for 401(k) plan sponsors. One believes employers aren't best-suited for the responsibility, while the other believes the current system is OK.

By Dana M. Muir and Jonathan Barry Forman
OPINION FEB 22, 2017
Why passive asset managers represent high risk for financial advisers

Passive third-party asset managers could expose clients to a greater level of risk and dissatisfaction.

By Greg Luken
OPINION FEB 22, 2017
Client communication strategies for uncertain markets

What severs ties is poor communication around the impacts of cyclical market gyrations on the portfolio.

By Gary Manguso
OPINION FEB 17, 2017
Financial technology companies embrace artificial intelligence and virtual reality

Adviser finds novel tools at T3 conference to improve client experience and prospecting.

By Bloomberg
Working to spark a global movement for pro bono financial planning
OPINION FEB 14, 2017
Working to spark a global movement for pro bono financial planning

Many lives would be changed if pro bono financial planning could be brought to vulnerable people around the globe.

By Jon Dauphiné
OPINION FEB 10, 2017
There's never been a better time to provide life insurance advice

Clients need help with this last, largest, most-neglected asset on their balance sheets like never before

By Barry Flagg
OPINION JAN 30, 2017
How retirement plan advisers can help clients with compliance

Advisers who don't assist with compliance are at risk of losing clients.

By Susan Shoemaker
10 important client considerations with 401(k) rollovers
OPINION JAN 26, 2017
10 important client considerations with 401(k) rollovers

Advisers need to make sure they understand where clients are coming from and how this decision will impact their retirement security.

By Jamie Hopkins
OPINION JAN 25, 2017
What financial advisers can do about a U5 disclosure

Given the current regulatory environment and increasing utilization of BrokerCheck by the public, a broker must take ownership of his or her CRD.

By Doc Kennedy
OPINION DEC 07, 2016
To help clients succeed in investing, it may require a walk down bizarro Wall Street

Truisms of life, such as doing more is better, are often turned on their head when investing.

By Daniel Crosby
OPINION DEC 02, 2016
Senate Democrats control fate of DOL fiduciary rule

The left side of the aisle is likely to hold together well enough to ensure the rule is modified rather than taken off the books.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
OPINION DEC 02, 2016
Want to provide a better client experience? Consult your clients

Advisory boards provide feedback that can help firms deliver the kind of experiences that turns clients into their advocates.

By Vanessa Oligino