Results of the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch fund managers survey.
Advisers should communicate proactively with clients to ease their fears and solidify the bond.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The nation's biggest banks, like JPMorgan Chase, are lumping their broker-dealer units in with other 'non-essential' operations.
Your exposure to stocks may have crept up over the years &mdash; separating your money into different buckets can help mitigate stress from volatility.
You may think they're as bullish as you are, but below the bravado, they may be nervous.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Which group is more nervous about the state of the markets? Advisers often misread their own tolerance for risk.
Not having access to the market has been protecting mutual-fund investors from fast declines.
Crux of the platform is to enable advisers to bolster client relationships while on the go.
Fifteen Barclays advisers have joined Merrill Lynch in the wake of news that Stifel Financial had agreed to buy their unit.
Women often need to get up to speed on finances in a fire-drill fashion and make some very critical decisions following widowhood or divorce.
Thomas M. Rampulla's return to the U.S. comes after the firm recast itself as a patron of an industry that once saw it as a threat.
It may be easy, and perhaps unintentional, but advisers' assumptions about a client's risk tolerance can lead to undesirable, maybe even lasting, results.
Ex-spouse can claim independently and is not subject to family maximum limit.
Managing emails, scheduling appointments, taking calls and even booking dinner reservations with clients not as time consuming as they once were. <i>(Plus: See a <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20150209/FREE/209009999/PH" target="_blank">snapshot of the top seven apps</a>.)</i>
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The market bears are getting bolder as they start to come out from a long hibernation, which doesn't really bode well for the bulls.
Are you a prudent saver, or has over-saving become a pathology?
The tennis star is turning to investing in startups and other business ventures over potential endorsement deals.
Author of report on classic cars as alternative investment calls sector 'exceptionally' complex.
Young investors' conservative investing mindset will work against them in saving for retirement.
If the island can't pay back all of its debts, some fund holders could suffer haircuts.
