Features
By Maya Ivanova
Tempered by the financial crisis, the best RIA firms have grown stronger.
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By Steve Adams
As you prepare for next year, take these simple, inexpensive steps to make your small firm appear like a big one—in a good way!—to your clients....
Beginnings
By Staff Writer
Behind the numbers with Sam Stovall...
By Jeff Joseph
Advisors need INitiative, Not INertia...
By Vaughan Scully
Cyclical but Intriguing...
By James J. Green
Rolls out eight of its own funds, featuring very low expenses and free trading....
By Kathleen M. McBride
Top Wealth Managers Quarterly Pulse Rankings...
By James J. Green
A chat with LPL's executive VP strategic programs and support services....
By Staff Writer
News from FPA, ICI, and SIFMA...
By Staff Writer
Hirings and other personnel news...
By Staff Writer
New info, tools, ETFs, and more...
By James J. Green
While inflation might be tamed in the overall economy, price cuts have yet to hit long-term care....
By Melanie Waddell
Investor Protection Act passes with lots of fiduciary-related amendments; action on Dodd not likely until 2010....
By Melanie Waddell
New boost in capital gives REITs a bright outlook....
By Melanie Waddell
The American College supports an amendment to the Investor Protection Act that would exempt some advice-givers from a fiduciary standard....
By Douglas Schnapp
The implications for advisors in the wake of New York’s revised power of attorney law....
By James J. Green
Challenging conventional wisdom is the mark of an engaged advisor who is never satisfied with the status quo....
Columns
By Lewis Schiff
“We suggest that clients would be a lot better off not buying the structured note,” says Robert Gordon, “but to actually buy
the pieces that make it up.”...
By Robert F. Keane
“WalMart is doing more, I would submit, to move the needle than any of us.” –L. Hunter Lovins...
By Mark Tibergien
Capital constraints, economic uncertainty, and increased levels of caution characterize the current marketplace in advisory firm M&A....
By Bob Clark
To regain former asset levels…I suspect independent advisors will have to do a better job of getting out their client-oriented message....
By Olivia Mellan
This holiday season, instead of asking, “What did you get?” we might ask, “What did you give, or even better, forgive?”...
By Angela Herbers
Most if not all advisor surveys are based on assumptions derived from the largest of advisory firms....
Conclusions
By Melanie Waddell
Service links BofA deposit accounts with Merrill Lynch cash management accounts...
By James J. Green
In the wake of the market meltdown that devastated many a retiree or near-retiree’s portfolio, what is the role of the advisor? ...
By Melanie Waddell
DOL testimony on fiduciaries, claims against advisors, and research on rollercoaster redemptions....
By Kathleen M. McBride
Most appear to support a fiduciary standard....
By James J. Green
ING agreed to sell three of its U.S. broker/dealers that comprise the ING Advisors Network to Lightyear Capital LLC....
By Staff Writer
New developments at Raymond James, LPL Financial, and Broadridge Financial Solutions...
By Marlene Y. Satter
Life settlements can be good, but what about once they’re securitized?...
By Marlene Y. Satter
Doug Head, executive director of the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA), flatly denies that STOLI is a problem....
By Tere D’Amato
Weighing the pros and cons of charitable gift annuities....
By Guest Contributor
Retirement plans and their participants may need to use separate advisors who are separate fiduciaries, devoid of the potential for conflicts....
Sidebar Stories
By Robert F. Keane
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By Robert F. Keane
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By Robert F. Keane
Marshfield, Wisconsin...
By Robert F. Keane
Louisville, Kentucky...
By Tere D’Amato
Questions to ask about charities....