Sentiment now at lowest level in more than a year; recession chief worry
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The head of Schwab Advisor Services apologized yesterday to the firm's RIA clients for sending a marketing piece sent Aug. 9 to advisers' clients who sponsor Schwab-run retirement plans.
RIA client assets that changed hands through acquisitions soared in the first half of the year but valuations of the firms are still below the 2008 peak, according to Schwab Advisor Services.
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The bi-partisan deficit reduction proposal is slowly gaining traction on Capitol Hill. And according to experts, one of the key components of the plan is the elimination of preferential tax treatment for capital gains and dividends.
A source says Adam Bold is seeking a buyer for The Mutual Fund Store, the RIA he founded. But Mr. Bold told a local Kansas City newspaper the firm is not on the block. | <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=datajoe&djoPage=summary&djoProjStr=22974|22989&issuedate=20110529&sid=RIA0529>The top fee-only RIAs</a>
Wirehouse brokers looking for a new place to hang their license likely would make more money at a bank's brokerage unit or by going independent rather than moving to another wirehouse.
Stocks rose, extending the first weekly gain since July for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, amid optimism the world's biggest economy will continue to expand and after Hurricane Irene failed to shut financial markets. Treasuries retreated, while Greek stocks soared.
Frederick Schultz, Lloyd Seested, David Andreadis, Richard Haskin, Eric Teichberg, and Karen Ben-Shlaush are joining the firm's private wealth group in Washington D.C.
Robert W. Baird & Co. has lured father-son team M. William McCollum Jr. and Travis McCollum from Wells Fargo Advisors LLC to work in its Charlotte, N.C., office.
Speculative demand from investors has pushed the gold market into a “bubble that is poised to burst” after prices surged to a record this year, Wells Fargo & Co. said
The stock market may hit bottom, but home prices sure haven't. On average, houses are selling for nearly 6% less now than they were last summer. Here's the ten states that have seen the biggest declines.
Pessimism about U.S. stocks among 120 investment newsletter writers increased the most since July 2007, a bullish signal to analysts who track investor sentiment as a contrarian indicator of share performance.
Is it time to move back into equities? Insiders are buying for the first time since March 2009, said Blackstone Group's Byron Wien, who predicted on Jan. 3 that 10-year Treasury yields and economic growth will approach 5% this year--usually a good sign.
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