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.
Financial advisers, pressed for time, increasingly are turning to podcasts to help them keep abreast of regulatory issues, management best practices and marketing trends.
Women who have recently lost a spouse may confront many changes in their daily lives and need financial support and advice.
During the worst of the market meltdown, surveys showed that three-quarters of high-net-worth investors were ready to jump ship and find a new adviser.
Financial advisers are warning their clients to donate only to well-known organizations if they want to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
St. Louis-based brokerage firm says it is reaping the benefits from the national trend of financial advisers exiting bigger brokerages and bringing their clients with them
The key tonic to the past 10 years was a more diversified, less equity-centric approach.
After watching the fall of GunnAllen Financial Inc. become official this morning, the firm's founders —Donald James “Jay” Gunn and Richard Allen Frueh —are apparently moving to a rival broker-dealer.
Advisers typically are encountered by wholesalers from fund companies on an almost daily basis.
A year after Wall Street failures plunged the nation into recession, the House on Friday passed the most ambitious restructuring of financial regulation since the New Deal.
RBC Wealth Management has recruited a pair of financial advisers from US Trust Wealth Management, where they ran some $450 million in client assets.
Two senior financial advisers from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney have left RBC Wealth Management.
RBC Wealth Management has added two senior financial advisers from Smith Barney with $340 million in client assets as the regional brokerage firm continues to recruit brokers a rapid clip.
Advisers are warning their clients to donate only to well-known organizations if they want to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.
As December winds down, now is the time to reflect on the last year and determine what, if anything, you would have done differently in your practice or even in your personal life
Wanted: adviser's assistant. Must have a bachelor's degree, a “nurturing gene” and the ability to speak Farsi.
Sheila M. Chesney likes it when clients look at reports detailing how their portfolios have performed, and tell her that they really understand what they are looking at.
The Labor Department is planning to expand its definition of fiduciary under ERISA — a move that would have implications for all financial advisers that work on retirement plans.
<b>Q: I've had some frustrating conversations with clients recently—trying to get them back in the market. Very few are taking my advice, even though they seem to know that staying on the sidelines is a mistake. What's going on, and how can I get them “unstuck”? </b>
