After the turbulent year that many advisers have had, your goals should be to stay focused and keep things simple. Your business plan should include dividing clients into appropriate categories, developing a detailed communications plan with investment and lifestyle ideas, setting goals for assets under management, creating tiered service levels, and devising a top-client asset retention strategy.
Cabinet NG, a document management and workflow software maker, this week launched two new tools the company says are intended to expedite searches and better access documents in its filing system <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/PHOTOGALLERY/804931245/1102/INTechnologyNews03"" target="”_blank”" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNG-Safe</a> (an acronym for Safe Access Filing Environment)
William Blair & Co. LLC and two ex-brokers at the firm have been socked with a $1.1 million arbitration decision that centered on two brokers' setting up a phony e-mail address where they sent statements from the brokerage account of an 88-year-old widow.
Swiss tax authorities said Tuesday they have notified the first 500 clients of Swiss bank UBS AG whose names they want to hand over to the United States for alleged tax cheating.
State and federal prosecutors have charged seven people in an alleged securities scam that cheated dozens of people out of $17 million.
When it comes to providing financial advice to athletes, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is relying on a little inside baseball to gain an edge in this ultra-competitive sector of the wealth management market.
Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish spending, not his advice, is to blame for the actor's financial problems.
LPL Investment Holdings Inc. continues to recruit heavily this year.
Advisers, independent broker-dealers, and others that need to keep up with compliance and regulatory changes daily — or that need to research cross-industry or multinational issues — can enlist a new online tool from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.
With new modifications to the systems at the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., reporting of cost basis information appears as if it could become less of an issue with advisers — assuaging some concerns from advisers that new requirements could make reporting more costly and cumbersome.
Despite the tougher outlook for regulatory audits in the coming months, many advisory firms that host their own e-mail systems still lack an e-mail archiving and backup system (44% of advisers who responded to an <i>InvestmentNews</i> technology survey last year said they had no such system).
Financial advisers need to craft and embrace a set of ethical standards for their firms as a way to build a franchise and reduce risk, according to Laura Hartman, professor of business ethics in DePaul University's College of Commerce.
Measures that would significantly boost funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as give shareholders a say on executive pay are included in draft financial overhaul legislation in the Senate, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.
While most investment management companies are reluctant to start firmwide hiring, many are looking to bulk up their compliance departments, according to executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.
After recruiting some 500 representatives so far this year, Ameriprise Financial Inc. is gutting and rebuilding its recruiting staff as part of an effort to bring in more independent reps.
Most financial advisers can relate to the challenges of handling smaller accounts that are inherited from the relatives of existing clients, or are in the form of small “orphaned” retirement accounts.
Cheshire Software Inc. has released an updated version of its Cheshire Wealth Manager planning program, which helps advisers develop both lifetime plans and simpler, goal-based plans for clients.
