Over the past year, the business environment for registered investment advisory firms has been fraught with danger and opportunity.
Included are several revenue raisers, including new reforms, old standbys and one big surprise
Who's afraid of slower growth and puny inflation rates? Apparently, not investors
Finra is right to push a rule proposal that would force brokers to tell clients about big signing bonuses they receive when moving to a new firm.
Marketing messages do count: What potential clients perceive drives their reality
With financial markets careening up and down amid new financial, environmental and geopolitical crises, investors are justifiably nervous about whether seemingly desperate times call for desperate measures.
Only in a courtroom will S&P's actions in rating mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis be fully disclosed.
Before they can expect to get a reasonable number of referrals, advisers need to ask some tough questions about themselves
Congress and the president have time before they need to come to grips with the budget deficit, but they would be wise not to squander it on partisan bickering.
To start scrapping savings incentives would undermine the foundation of our retirement system, risking wider damage
With the Fed out of tricks, investors should expect a more volatile economy and market over the next 20 years
Financial advisers can cheer on behalf of some of their clients — individuals with annual income below $400,000 and couples below $450,000 — but they shouldn't cheer too loudly or too long.
End-of-year sell-off to beat the tax man may not be the best plan
The back-and-forth touched off by NAPFA's announcement last Tuesday to go all-CFP next year highlights the fact that after decades of discussion and debate, the financial advisory business is still struggling to define itself.
