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CFP board navigates rough seas
Roiled by controversies over compensation disclosure and an attempt to offer its own continuing-education programs, the CFP board is forced to adjust.
Ranking the industry’s top tech vendors
TDAI has named the the six top tech picks for its Veo platform. The first-time award program recognizes technology firms that maximize the open access platform.
Merrill Lynch advisers embrace a goals-based investing approach
Kathleen Delong, a senior Merrill Lynch adviser in Allentown, Pa., has embraced the emotional side of behavioral finance.
Advisers create a franchise operation for divorce planning
Team to offer professional testimony in court, forensic accounting and other services.
Goals-based planning takes flight
A confluence of changing client demographics and challenging investment environments has forced many advisers to shift their focus from being stock jockeys to holistic planners — and this evolution is bleeding into all of the advice channels.
Rise of the machines
Will the rise of online advice platforms make traditional advisers extinct? Advisers face the challenge of defining their usefulness as technology continues to advance.
‘Heartbleed’ cybersecurity threat looms over advisers and clients
Steps, including changing passwords, multi-factor verification, can be taken to lessen threat.
‘User experience’ top of mind<br>at TechLeaders conference
Redtail, Albridge and more look to deliver friendly technology to advisers.
Combining firms reduces costs and spurs collaboration
Sandy Johnson’s best business decision was to participate in an Ameriprise Financial Inc. experiment 20 years ago that…
Take this job and value it
Innovative financial planners are getting into career sounseling to help clients align their work with their desired lifestyle, while also staying on track financially.
Look beyond financial planning schools to find the next superstar
Advisers find successful hires in a swathe of academic disciplines, not just planning.
Financial advice business grapples with diversity challenges
Could a wave of retirements open unprecedented opportunity for minorities?
Student creates business to aid “pre-planning” clients
Not satisfied just setting up meetings and answering phones, financial planning student Leah Manderson found a way out of the need-experience-to get-experience Catch-22.
Opportunity knocking as clients continue diversifying financial advice: Cerulli
Number of advisers that average household uses tops three; many in the market for more help.
GAO cites SEC for cybersecurity lapses
Weaknesses found in way agency authenticated users, authorized access and encrypted data.
Why the client segmentation model is outdated and should be replaced
Client segmentation may make business sense, but it defies common client-servicing sense
Why young financial advisers need mentoring
A panel of financial staffing and career experts agree: mentoring is pivotal to the development of NextGen advisers. But what makes it such a critical part of adviser success?
Advisers say clients are calm, cool as market crumbles
Long-term outlook is still bullout even as correction gets nasty; volatility not a surprise
TIAA-CREF going on a hiring binge
Retirement plan sponsor, money manager, to hire 200 advisers over next year.
Who’s afraid of the bad big bank?
If you've got at least $100 million in net worth, the folks at Wells Fargo would like to put on a show for you and your heirs.
