Mohamed El-Erian on disruptions in the financial sector
Staff Editor Kara Stapleton chats with PIMC0's co-CEO and co-CIO about
disruptions in the financial sector, why they occurred and how they have
spread, the same topics he will address in his opening address at the
Morningstar Investment Conference, June 25 in Chicago.
Voices of the IA25: Rosanne Grande
In a conversation with IA Staff Editor Kara Stapleton, Rosanne Grande,
managing director of R.W. Rog & Co., explains just what financial
gerontology is, and why it's going to be even more important in the coming
years.
Voices of the IA25: Deena Katz
As an associate professor at Texas Tech University, Deena Katz has a great
perspective on the next generation of advisors. In this interview with Staff
Editor Kara Stapleton, she explains why she's optimistic about the future of
the profession.
Gail Dudack on Asset Allocation
Staff Editor Kara Stapleton discusses asset allocation in a challenging
environment with Gail Dudack, principal of the Dudack Group and a long-time
member of IA's Asset Allocation panel.
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Mark Tibergien on practice management, decumulation and baby boomers
Strategic versus tactical thinking is a recurring theme for Mark Tibergien, CEO of Pershing Advisor Solutions, and leader of the IA 25 for 2008. He's well known for his research and analysis of what makes independent advisory firms tick. In this first of two exclusive IA Podcasts with Mark Tibergien, he talks
about the things advisors can do in 2008 that could be great for their businesses, as well as what to avoid, and adding value for clients in the decumulation phase of investing.
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Lincoln Anderson on Asset Allocation and Strategy
Asset allocation and strategy are just two of the many areas of investing
that advisors are always on top of. With all the volatility and turmoil in
the markets and economy over the past few quarters, Investment Advisor
wanted to feature the wise, and contrarian thinking of economist Lincoln
Anderson, the Chief Investment Officer at LPL Financial.
Anderson is part of Investment Advisor's Asset Allocation Panel, and he
typically has the highest allocation to equities of all of our panelists. In
March his allocation to equities is 80%, bonds, 15% and cash 5%. In our
interview he was candid about why he's cautioning advisors about value
investing, saying it's, "riskier than investors perceive, while over on the
growth side there's much less risk." And he's just as candid about where he
thinks the opportunities are in equities.
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Joni Youngwirth on SWOT
In this exclusive podcast, recorded during the Investment Advisor Moss Adams Advisor Summit, Washington Bureau Chief Melanie Waddell chats with Commonwealth Financial Management's practice management expert Joni Youngwirth about the need for advisors to take stock of their businesses and perform a SWOT analysis.
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Speaker of the Month: Deena Katz
In this conversation with Staff Editor Kara Stapleton, Deena Katz, associate professor at Texas Tech University and a partner of Evensky & Katz in Coral Gables, Florida, talks about the FPA Residency Program, of which she is one of the mentors for advisors returning to the profession after being away from the field for one to three years. As she notes, "We can offer something you just can't get out of a book."
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The Gold Rush and More
In this very timely IA Podcast recorded on September 18, Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer of U.S.Global Funds, talks exclusively to IA's Kate McBride about the recent rise of gold, which just hit a 25-year high, what he calls the "scam" of repackaging lower-grade securities as AAA-rated and selling them in the money markets, the debt market's inability to roll over short-term paper, the Fed cutting rates, oil, the dollar, and the presidential election cycle. For advisors who seek perspective on the global market scene, this IA Podcast has what you need to know.
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Islamic Investing
The Amana Funds invest according to Islamic principles and that means little to no financial sector allocation according to their portfolio manager, Nick Kaiser. The funds have outperformed consistently. Kaiser talks with IA's Kate McBride about how he invests with guidance from Islamic scholars.
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Speaker of the Month: Beth Chapman
Publicity expert Beth Chapman talks with staff editor Kara Stapleton about how advisors can market themselves to non-traditional audiences, particularly gays, lesbians and unmarried couples.
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Money Funds & the Markets
Bruce Bent, father of the money market mutual fund, talks in Part I about how recent market turbulence will affect them
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Money Funds & Advisors
In Part II of our exclusive podcast, Bruce Bent explains what advisors should look for in their clients' money funds.
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Experience and Flexibility
In this exclusive IA podcast, John Rogers, Jr., founder and CEO of Ariel Capital Management, talks with senior editor Kate McBride about how his firm got started 25 years ago and how it's continuing to thrive.
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Speaker of the Month: Ross Levin
Distribution Planning
Ross Levin, president of Accredited Investors, Inc., tells staff editor Kara P. Stapleton, that people that do the best job of accumulating money may have the hardest time spending it in this podcast preview of his upcoming session at the FPA annual conferenece in Seattle, September 8-11.
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Speaker of the Month: Joni Youngwirth
Joni Youngwirth, the practice management expert at Commonwealth Financial Network,reveals the 10 factors that she has found essential to running a well-oiled advisory practice.
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Speaker of the Month: Dandan Zhu
A Big-Picture View of Global Investing
Dandan Zhu addresses some of the issues advisors should be aware of when it comes to global investing.
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More With Mary Schapiro
In this second of a three part series of podcasts with NASD CEO Mary Schapiro, she discusses fiduciary issues, challenges for broker/dealers, and changing demographics of the investing public with IA Senior Editor Kate McBride.
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B/D Roundtable
Senior Editor Kate McBride hosted a roundtable conference call with members of the IA Broker/Dealer Advisory Board, who shared their thoughts on a number of issues facing the broker/dealer community. In the first of three podcasts, Brian Murphy, president and CEO of Woodbury Financial; Barry Knight, president of NEXT Financial; Ralph DeVito, president of The Investment Center; and Scott Yamamura, group president of Contemporary Financial Solutions start off with a couple of topics on the minds of most B/D execs margins and recruiting.
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At The Helm
NASD CEO Mary Schapiro on the merger of that organization and NYSE into one super-regulator and the harmonization of their two rule books into one set of rules for all broker/dealers.
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Speaker of the Month: Michael Kitces
Helping advisors deal with their clients' existing annuities will be the object of a talk by Michael Kitces, director of financial planning at Pinnacle Advisory Group at the FPA Nor Cal Conference in late May. He discusses what he'll be covering with Staff Editor Kara Stapleton in this IA podcast.
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Opening Day
Chuck Akre talks with Senior Editor Kate McBride about re-opening the $1.5 billion FBR Small Cap Fund.
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From the IA 25
John Iachello, COO of Pershing Advisor Solutions talks about operating inefficiencies he sees affecting independent advisors and offers some suggestions for fixing them.
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Speaker of the Month: Susan Hirshman
Six Risks to Wealth Preservation
Speaker of the month Susan Hirshman will be addressing the top six issues that put wealth preservation at risk when she addresses the IMCA Spring Professional Development Conference. She outlines those issues to IA Staff Editor Kara Stapleton in this exclusive podcast.
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Trends in SMAs
Prima Capital's J. Gibson Watson III talks with IA's Kate McBride about trends in separately managed accounts and why the winners of the 2007 SMA Awards stood out from the crowd.
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Alternatives to annuities?
Harold Evensky talks about the retirement distribution conundrum
What can advisors do to generate cash flow to meet clients' retirement needs? Is there an alternsative to annuities? To get some answers, IA's Kate McBride talked with Harold Evensky, president of Coral Gables, Florida-based Evensky & Katz and author, with his partner Deena Katz, of 'Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution,' (Bloomberg Press, 2006).
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Speaker of the Month: Scott Wentsel
Scott Wentsel, senior portfolio manager of Ibbotson Associates on retirement income funds, his scheduled topic at the Ibbotson Asset Allocation Conference, March 8 & 9 in Miami.
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Retirement Income
Mitch Politzer of Ameritas Direct talks to Editor Jamie Green about retirement income, annuities, and how reinsurers are handling the risk of guaranteed riders on VAs.
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John Simmers, the new chairman of the Financial Services Institute, and president of ING Advisors Network, discusses the challenges facing independent broker/dealers in this two-part podcast. In part one, Simmers tells IA's Kate McBride about the FSI's 2007 agenda and explores the regulatory landscape in light of the NYSE-NASD merger. In part two, the topic is representatives - where new ones are coming from, what kinds of licenses and registrations they hold, and the new services independent B/Ds are using to entice them to join and stay in the fold.
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Speaker of the Month: Rebecca Pomering
Moss Adams's Rebecca Pomering on learning from the most successful firms
In our first Speaker of the Month podcast, Rebecca Pomering of Moss Adams outlines what she plans to cover in her presentation on learning from the most successful firms at the NAPFA Advanced Planners Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, February 23-25.
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Lincoln Anderson, LPL
Intrigued by LPL Chief Economist Lincoln Anderson's thoughts on the economy and the markets in 2007 heard at the Advisor Summit?
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Liz Ann Sonders on the Mid-Term Elections, the Fourth Quarter and Early '07
A day-after the election conversation with Schwab's chief investment strategist.
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Rob Arnott on Fundamental Indexing
The chairman of Research Affiliates explains why equal-weighting is superior to weighting indexes by market capitalization.
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Broker/Dealers of the Year
Winning B/D execs address the challenges and opportunities facing their segment of the industry.
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Roger Ibbotson on Asset Allocation
Some advice from the founder of Ibbotson Associates in this exclusive IA Podcast.
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The Next Generation
The IA Leaders Council on finding, recruiting and nurturing talented young professionals
