Features
By Peter McCarthy, JD
A new kind of family is emerging, the "international family." ...
By Adam Moseley and Wade Spencer
A growing number of firms are facing tough decisions about spending money on new technology these days....
Beginnings
By Robert F. Keane
Behind the numbers with Gary Shilling...
By Melanie Waddell
President Barack Obama has set an ambitious deadline of October to achieve comprehensive healthcare reform....
By James J. Green
A report from the annual Insite gathering. ...
By James J. Green
BlackRock Inc. will acquire Barclays Global Investors for $6.6 billion in cash and 37.8 million shares of BlackRock common stock and equivalents....
By Staff Writer
Association news...
By James J. Green
Schwab's Jeff Mortimer...
By Staff Writer
Personnel moves and appointments...
By Staff Writer
What's going on......
By James J. Green
The wealthy are even more risk-averse than you might have thought....
By Melanie Waddell
It looks to be all but inevitable that the rules for broker/dealers and investment advisors will be harmonized and that B/Dsoffering investment advice will have to adhere to a fiduciary standard of care....
By James J. Green
A conversation with Robert Manning, CEO of MFS Investment Management....
By James J. Green
What actually constitutes good service, and does the definition change if you’re offering it to clients in these challenging times, or getting it from your partners? ...
By Beth Piskora
They are the only three equity ETFs that met the toughest possible screening parameters. ...
By Jeff Joseph
If there was ever a time to revisit the prevailing conventional wisdom, it is now....
By James J. Green
“Perhaps we could translate the Australian model into an American golden age of advice.”...
Columns
By Lewis Schiff
Intangible assets can take the form of copyrights, patents, trademarks, royalty rights, the rights to publicity, and many more variations. ...
By Robert F. Keane
"What some people have concluded is that carbon could potentially be the largest commodity market in the world, and certainly when there’s a market created there’s going to be opportunity." ...
By Mark Tibergien
Owners of advisory firms have a little breathing room to make clear-headed decisions. But not a lot of time....
By Bob Clark
Washington is far more likely to tweak the existing system than to rewrite the investment advisor legislation....
By Olivia Mellan
To keep the current crisis from weakening your bonds with your clients, you need to tune into their beliefs and fears at the deepest level. ...
By Angela Herbers
Solo advisor Brian Fenn personifies the power of niche advising. ...
Conclusions
By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani
Experts believe the SEC will soon extend the summary prospectus requirement to variable annuities. ...
By James J. Green
The bad news: unemployment is still growing. The good news: the unemployed are rolling over their 401(k)s....
By Melanie Waddell
A new study and new legislation...
By Jonathan Henschen
“Advisors typically don’t have a clue as to what the profit centers are at broker/dealers and, frankly, the broker/dealers would like to keep it that way.”...
By Marlene Y. Satter
After a series of high-profile actions in his position as New York’s top insurance regulator Eric Dinallo is leaving the job at the New York State Insurance Department....
By Tere D’Amato
It's time to get educated about Stranger Owned Life Insurance. ...
By Guest Contributor
The fixed income substitutes pushed by the major investment houses weren’t fixed income substitutes at all....
Sidebar Stories
By Robert F. Keane
In Australia, members of the Financial Planning Association must adhere to the (slightly abridged) following Code of Ethics....
By Lewis Schiff
Some common traps in determining intellectual property rights....
By Robert F. Keane
A successful market-based cap and trade program for carbon emissions requires a few minimum elements. ...
By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani
In the last six months of 2008, the financial future of retirees and pre-retirees took a huge blow....
By Tere D’Amato
If past participants of stranger-owned life insurance were promised easy money at no cost, the rules of the game have changed....
By Robert F. Keane
A few terms from our friends in the southern hemisphere....
By Peter McCarthy, JD
Beyond providing money for emergencies, a generation-skipping trust can be structured in ways that attempt to guide the behavior and life choices of future generations....
By Adam Moseley and Wade Spencer
Schwab Technology Consultants estimates that for every daily five-minute process that’s automated, you could save $800 annually in operational resources. ...
By Adam Moseley and Wade Spencer
One of the most effective ways to get staff to use the technology that a firm already possesses to its full advantage is to appoint an "internal evangelist."...
By Melanie Waddell
It’s clear that advisors are worried about the impact of regulatory reform measures....
By James J. Green
Among the holdings 85 years ago were Nash Motors Co., the New York Central Railroad (railroads were very big back then), Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co., and the Punta Alegre Sugar Co.
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By James J. Green
When it comes to service from their custodians, advisors want accurate, timely information, but they also want a partner with integrity....
By Olivia Mellan
Cultural differences about money and investing are often rooted in sometimes bitter experience....
Web Extras
By James J. Green
A conversation with Robert Manning, CEO of MFS Investment Management....