Van Eck To Launch ETFs On Emerging Emerging Markets
FA News
| May 15, 2008 |
Where Opportunity Knocks
By Marla Brill
Manager Jerry Jordan buys and sells aggressively around market
cycles. | April 1, 2008 |
Capturing Alpha With ETFs
By C. Michael Carty and Julia M. Carty
Devising profitable strategies requires recognizing when a cyclical change
is taking place. | April 1, 2008 |
Investors Warming To Alternative Investments, Rydex Says
FA News
| March 27, 2008 |
Schwab Expands Managed Account Business For Advisors
FA News
| March 26, 2008 |
Independent Advisor Optimism Down
FA News
| March 5, 2008 |
SEC Looks To Speed Introduction Of Exchange-Traded Funds
FA News
| March 4, 2008 |
Investment Utopia
By Sydney LeBlanc
Do investments exist that offer lower risk, lower costs and alpha generation? | March 1, 2008 |
The Next Biggest Thing
By Jeff Schlegel
Green investing holds great promise, but investors need to differentiate the hope from the hype. | March 1, 2008 |
Correlated Markets Erode Diversification
FA News
| February 29, 2008 |
New Study Ranks Advisor Loyalty To Financial Services Firms
FA News
| February 22, 2008 |
BridgePortfolio Enhances Advisory Offerings With CheckFree’s Services
FA News
| February 22, 2008 |
The Bond ETF Explosion
By Marla Brill
Still at less than 6% of total ETF assets, expect many more to pop up.
| February 1, 2008 |
Strategic Moves
By Jeff Schlegal
United Capital’s Joe Duran must see ways to improve an advisory firm’s business before he offers to buy it.
| February 1, 2008 |
Investors Still Flock To Wrap Accounts
FA News
| January 18, 2008 |
Van Eck Launches Coal ETF
FA News
| January 14, 2008 |
Some ETFs Could Prompt Tax Bills
FA News
| January 4, 2008 |
Holdrs May Be Heading 'Into Extinction'
FA News
| December 7, 2007 |
Wal-Mart Suppliers ETF, Other Niche Funds
FA News
| September 28, 2007 |
Happy Days (Mostly) For RIAs
FA News
| September 28, 2007 |
Investors Pull Money From Humbled ETFs
FA News
| September 14, 2007 |
Mad Dash For Muni Bond ETFs Begins
FA News
| September 14, 2007 |
National Financial Bulks Up Managed-Account Arm
FA News
| September 13, 2007 |
Green Acres
FA News
| September 7, 2007 |
Not Just For The Big Boys Anymore
By Sydney LeBlanc
Advances in technology make separately managed accounts available to smaller investors. | September 1, 2007 |
The Sector Shifter
By Marla Brill
G. Michael Mara puts a conservative
spin on sector rotation. | September 1, 2007 |
The Number Of Upbeat Independent Advisors Is Down
FA News
| August 27, 2007 |
Finding Energy Alternatives
By Marla Brill
The global warming debate heats up investor interest in alternative energy, and the market responds with ETFs. | August 1, 2007 |
A Missing Link?
By Eric Uhlfelder
Global infrastructure investments are a
strong, but insufficiently held, asset class. | August 1, 2007 |
The Race To Offer Municipal Bond ETFs
FA News
| July 27, 2007 |
Financial Advisor Unveils Second Annual "Top RIA" Rankings
FA News
| July 24, 2007 |
ETFs May Lose Some Appeal In 401(k) Plans
FA News
| June 5, 2007 |
Indexing Debate Heats Up
By Marla Brill
Proponents of fundamental indexing say it beats
traditional market-cap-weighted measures. | June 1, 2007 |
SRI’s Meaning Keeps Growing
By Raymond Fazzi
Assets continue to balloon, even as the
debate about performance continues to bubble. | June 1, 2007 |
Perfectionists And Number Geeks
By: Tracey Longo
Three planners have built WMS Partners into an $800 million firm where hedge fund managers and real estate moguls invest. | June 1, 2007 |
Barclays Plans Exchange-Traded Notes
FA News
| May 21, 2007 |
Service Offers Peek At Affluent Accounts
FA News
| May 15, 2007 |
What’s New At The Custodian
By Eric Rasmussen
Custodians are continuing to offer new services for fee-only planners In their efforts to woo RIAs. | May 1, 2007 |
Perfect Together
By Raymond Fazzi
Roy Ballentine and Alice Finn lead a unique planning
firm that serves some of America’s wealthiest families. | May 1, 2007 |
10 Funds Dominate ETF Market
FA News
| May 1, 2007 |
Morningstar To Provide Wireless Fund, ETF Data
FA News
| May 1, 2007 |
Vanguard To Launch Active Bond ETF
FA News
| April 27, 2007 |
UMAs Attractive To Wealthy Investors
FA News
| April 26, 2007 |
XShares To Launch Real Estate ETFs
FA News
| April 20, 2007 |
Why Oil ETFs Are Lagging Oil Markets
FA News
| April 10, 2007 |
Layer Upon Layer
By Matt Hougan
Funds of ETFs are the latest craze. | April 1, 2007 |
No One Size Suits All Advisors
By Mary Rowland
Finding the right fit for how you build
and grow your practice depends on what you want—and need. | April 1, 2007 |
Morningstar Buys S&P Fund Data Business
FA News
| March 15, 2007 |
ETF Selection Made Easier On Web
FA News
| March 13, 2007 |
Ground Floor Heats Up
By Marla Brill
Private equity and IPOs are staging a huge comeback.
But should advisors jump in? | March 1, 2007 |
Challenging EAFE
By Eric Uhlfelder
Managers who closely track market-cap-weighted
country indexes may miss opportunities. | March 1, 2007 |
Catching Wind With Short Sails
By Eric Rasmussen
Are new strategies from long-short
managers more sophisticated, or just riskier? | March 1, 2007 |
Morningstar Offers Managed Stock Accounts
FA News
| February 16, 2007 |
Engineering Profit
By Raymond Fazzi
An 87-year-old wealth manager started as an
inventor, then managed investments. | February 1, 2007 |
Dancing The Contango
By Matt Hougan
The commodities market has investors singing the blues, but a
new note leads some to follow the beat of a different drummer. | February 1, 2007 |
Surprisingly Few Surprises
By Raymond Fazzi
Value funds, international equities and REITs
remained strong last year. | February 1, 2007 |
Location, Location, Location
By Eric Rasmussen
With REITs hotter than ever, advisors are looking overseas for newer, riper real estate securities. | February 1, 2007 |
Unified Managed Accounts The New Rage
FA News
| February 1, 2007 |
Retirement As A Mess Of Maybes
By Lewis Walker
Finding the balance between cold hard numbers and rationality. | December 1, 2007 |
The New Indexing Maze
By Marla Brill
Many ETFs are based on indexes unheard of a few years ago. Advisors need to do their homework on them. | December 1, 2007 |
In The Land Of Giants
By David J. Drucker
Does a small custodian have a chance these days? If it offers something advisors can’t get from the Big Three, it does. | November 1, 2007 |
Income For Life? Well, We Hope So.
By William Glasgall
A look at new products that are supposed to create “personal pensions”
for your clients. | November 1, 2007 |
New Twists On The Oldest Economy
By jeff Schlegel
Agriculture could be poised for long-term growth. | November 1, 2007 |
Changing Lanes
By Karen DeMasters
A former General Motors employee, Tim Herbert now is helping his former colleagues as a financial advisor. | November 1, 2007 |
A Real (Estate) Mess
By Jeff Schlegel
in the wake of the subprime debacle, investors rethink the ways they are investing in real estate. | October 1, 2007 |
ETFs Delve Into Health Care Niches
FA News
| January 29, 2007 |
Alternative Investments Not Embraced By All
FA News
| January 24, 2007 |
TD Ameritrade Set To Launch ETFs
FA News
| January 12, 2007 |
ETFs To Focus On State Economies
FA News
| January 10, 2007 |
'Fundamental' Indexes Shake ETF World
FA News
| January 4, 2007 |
G-Sphere
By Joel Bruckenstein
A different approach to
portfolio construction. | January 1, 2007 |
Deconstructing Advisors’ Marketing Conundrum
By Andy Gluck
Advisors may not know how to
market, but they are not alone. | January 1, 2007 |
S&P ETF Swells Ahead Of Year-End
FA News
| December 21, 2006 |
Structured Notes Linked To Commodities
FA News
| December 12, 2006 |
State Street To Launch Intl Real Estate ETF
FA News
| October 19, 2006 |
ETFs Stung By Oil Price Declines
FA News
| October 10, 2006 |
Vanguard Restrictions May Impact Advisors
FA News
| October 5, 2006 |
New Generation Of ETFs On Horizon
FA News
| October 1, 2006 |
UITs Get New Life As Equity Vehicles
FA News
| September 21, 2006 |
Technology Roundup
By Joel Bruckenstein
Upgraded versions of Junxure-i and Workstation Office offer new capabilities and opportunities. | September 1, 2006 |
Asset Allocation And Investor Goals
By Eileen Cohen and William H. Overgard
What we’ve learned about portfolio construction from the first decade of hedge funds. | September 1, 2006 |
Back In The Spotlight
By Marla Brill
Tax-sensitive funds are gaining new interest from investors. | September 1, 2006 |
SMAs Expand Into Indexing
FA News
| August 31, 2006 |
Checking ETFs For Unexpected Holdings
FA News
| August 10, 2006 |
Barclays, WisdomTree To Start Sector ETFs
FA News
| August 2, 2006 |
Too Much Of A Good Thing?
By Matthew Hougan
Do the new leveraged ETFs have a place in the
financial advisor’s toolbox? | August 1, 2006 |
Profiting From Foreign Exchange
By Eric Uhlfelder
Currency exposure can add diversification
and gains to portfolios—if you’re careful. | August 1, 2006 |
Fund Returns: Theory Vs. Experience
By Raymond Fazzi
Morningstar will publish dollar-weighted fund
returns so investors can better assess what they get. | August 1, 2006 |
How Are They Managing Growth?
By: Andrew Gluck
Some supergrowth
advisors share their secrets. | August 1, 2006 |
Yes, Even Narrower ETFs Are On The Way
FA News
| July 19, 2006 |
New Players Seek Niches In ETF Market
FA News
| July 14, 2006 |
Derivative Use In SMA Portfolios
By Sydney LeBlanc
Strategies can be implemented
to utilize puts and covered calls. | July 1, 2006 |
The Golden Age of Growth
A Financial Advisor Special Report
Our inaugural ranking of leading RIA firms. | July 1, 2006 |
Using ETFs To Sidestep 'Wash Rule'
FA News
| June 16, 2006 |
Rydex Plans Six New Currency ETFs
FA News
| June 14, 2006 |
Ten Myths Busted At Tiburon Summit
By Tom Lydon
Discussion helped dismantle myths about investments, boomers and more. | June 1, 2006 |
Death And Taxes?
By Matt Hougan
Maybe not. ETFs can help you avoid the taxman, but keep an eye on out for special situations. | June 1, 2006 |
ProFund ETFs Geared To Timers
FA News
| May 31, 2006 |
Emerging Market ETFs Show Volatility
FA News
| May 24, 2006 |
ETFs Not All From Same Mold
FA News
| May 22, 2006 |
Retirement Assets Boomed in 2005
FA News
| May 9, 2006 |
Opportunity Or Bubble?
By Eric L. Reiner
Passive vs. active investing is another
issue in the red-hot emerging markets sector. | May 1, 2006 |
New ETF Taps Into IPO Market
FA News
| April 19, 2006 |
Moving From Funds to ETFs: Worth It?
FA News
| April 7, 2006 |
Rolling With Commodities
By Matt Hougan
A much-anticipated ETF hits the market—along with some questions. | April 1, 2006 |
When Sin Is Superior
By Herbert Blank and Andrea Psoras
Eliminating vice stocks from portfolios may mean lower returns. | April 1, 2006 |
A Look At New Horizons
By Raymond Fazzi
New methods of indexing are helping some achieve marginally better returns for retirement. | April 1, 2006 |
New Entrants Crowd ETF Industry
FA News
| March 27, 2006 |
Finding An IRA Parking Spot
FA News
| March 15, 2006 |
A Different Kind Of Custodian
By Joel Bruckenstein
Trust Company of America has a novel service platform. | March 1, 2006 |
Joe Sixpack’s Family Office?
By Sydney LeBlanc
A new service will automate the process of producing one report of all a family’s accounts. | March 1, 2006 |
Courting A New Crowd
By Marla Brill
Rydex Investments hopes to move beyond market timers to mainstream advisors. | March 1, 2006 |
Attitude Adjustment
By Raymond Fazzi
Former Navy officer and teacher Dave Carter thinks attitude-not income or inheritance-determines the resources clients have. | March 1, 2006 |
The Pros And Cons Of International ETFs
FA News
| February 24, 2006 |
Morningstar Added To TD Waterhouse Platform
FA News
| February 15, 2006 |
Is ‘Buy The Market’ Best?
By Matt Hougan
Enhanced indexers say they have the way to go the market one (or two) better. | February 1, 2006 |
Do These ETFs Make Sense?
By Matt Hougan
Reading the fine print is a good start; you’d
better read between the lines, too. | December 1, 2006 |
Flying Blind
By Raymond Fazzi
Managers find themselves vexed about the economy’s direction. | December 1, 2006 |
Challenging Conventional Wisdom
By Evan Simonoff
The independent advisory market is changing, perhaps in some surprising ways.
| December 1, 2006 |
Embracing The Future
By Sydney LeBlanc and Ron Brounes
Pershing and Lockwood get the thumbs-up for their vision, a smooth transition and high client satisfaction. | November 1, 2006 |
Multiplication
By Robert Casey
Multifamily offices report double-digit growth, with smaller organizations leading the way. | November 1, 2006 |
Foraging For Funds Abroad
By Eric Uhlfelder
Here’s what to consider when selecting
international funds. | November 1, 2006 |
Year-End Tax Planning, Take 2006
By Eric L. Reiner
Advisors put charitable strategies at the head
of this year’s checklist. | October 1, 2006 |
Making Lemonade From Lemons
By Matt Hougan
Swapping ETFs to harvest losses can make a lot of sense. | October 1, 2006 |
Golden Eggs In A Market Acting Cracked
By Eric Rasmussen
A basketful of economic uncertainty leaves planners scrambling. | October 1, 2006 |
Commodity Investing Gets Easier
FA News
| January 26, 2006 |
ETF, Annuity Combos On The Rise
FA News
| January 13, 2006 |
Choosing ETFs Akin To Stock Picking
FA News
| January 5, 2006 |
Wilmington Trust Launches Seven Funds
FA News
| January 4, 2006 |
ETFs To Watch In 2006
FA News
| January 4, 2006 |
Deal With It
By Richard B. Wagner
Money skills are a 21st century survival requirement. | January 1, 2006 |
Breaking The Mold
By Sydney LeBlanc
Advisors must shape their discipline for asset allocation issues. | January 1, 2006 |
Embracing The F Word
By Sydney LeBlanc
US Fiduciary offers a business model that is attracting ultra-high-end advisors who want to be fiduciaries. | January 1, 2006 |
Investors 'Bundling Up' Portfolios
FA News
| December 20, 2005 |
S&P Launches New Value, Growth Indexes
FA News
| December 16, 2005 |
Ruling May Lower Costs On ETF Option Trades
FA News
| November 23, 2005 |
Advisors Growing Despite Compliance Issues
FA News
| November 15, 2005 |
Archipelago To Launch Tech ETF
FA News
| November 11, 2005 |
Firms Offering ETFs In Retirement Plans
FA News
| November 8, 2005 |
ETF 'Bandwagon' Keeps Rolling
FA News
| October 26, 2005 |
Taxes Can Differ On ETF Dividends
FA News
| October 3, 2005 |
First Trust Launches MicroCap ETF
FA News
| September 30, 2005 |
Index Funds, ETFs Match Up In Portfolios
FA News
| September 26, 2005 |
New SMA Uses Active ETF Management
FA News
| September 15, 2005 |
ETFs Open New Doors
By Jim Wiandt
Opportunities abound as ETFs expand to cover the the world. | September 1, 2005 |
Energy ETFs Not Created Equal
FA News
| August 23, 2005 |
Amex Facing New Challenges
FA News
| August 3, 2005 |
ETFs and SMAs: Side By Side
By Sydney LeBlanc
Are they strange bedfellows—or pillow talk? | August 1, 2005 |
Barclays Introducing Commodities ETF
FA News
| July 29, 2005 |
State Street Looks To Expand ETF Line
FA News
| June 13, 2005 |
Avoiding Redemption Fees In 401(k) Plans
By Darwin K. Abrahamson
Watch out: More funds are introducing them. | June 1, 2005 |
When Less Means More
By Jim Wiandt
Index fund fee war kicks off in earnest as actively managed fees rise. | June 1, 2005 |
S&P To Overhaul Growth, Value Indexes
FA News
| May 31, 2005 |
ETF Managers Get 'Active'
FA News
| May 26, 2005 |
ETFs The Rising Star Of Wall Street
FA News
| May 2, 2005 |
Competing In The Nonprofit Market
By David J. Drucker
Nonprofits are one way to capture those multimillion-dollar portfolios. | May 1, 2005 |
Commodities Go Mainstream
By Marla Brill
New products make it easier to get a pure play on commodity prices. | May 1, 2005 |
Vanguard Adds Three International ETFs
FA News
| March 15, 2005 |
Vanguard Lowers ETF Fees
FA News
| March 14, 2005 |
New Funds Spice Up ETF Market
FA News
| March 2, 2005 |
Getting Under The Hood Of ETFs
By Jim Wiandt
A glitch in QQQQ leads to enormous mispricing on opening cross. | March 1, 2005 |
ETF's Get Socially Responsible
FA News
| February 2, 2005 |
SMAs Make Taxes, Well … Not So Taxing
By Sydney LeBlanc
Strategies to help keep clients’ dollars out of harm’s way at tax time. | December 1, 2005 |
Taxing Questions
By Jim Wiandt
Are ETFs really more tax efficient than mutual funds? | December 1, 2005 |
All For Advisors
By Tracey Longo
Custodians are unleashing yet another round of products and services. | November 1, 2005 |
Behind The Scenes At Intuit’s PortfolioMinder
By Joel Bruckenstein
New portfolio management and reporting platform capable yet inexpensive. | November 1, 2005 |
No-Cost Retirement Planning Software
By Joel Bruckenstein
A look at Oppenheimer software; an update on Skill Weighted Portfolio. | October 1, 2005 |
Recreating The Paycheck
By David J. Drucker
How to help clients transition from earning money to taking distributions. | October 1, 2005 |
Shorting ETFs Gets Sold Short
There are advantages to be had, but few advisors jump in. | October 1, 2005 |
Skip Viragh Award Winner Named At FAS Symposium
FA News
| October 7, 2004 |
PowerShares To Launch Juiced Up ETFs
FA News
| August 23, 2004 |
Independent Broker-Dealers Improving SMA Programs
By Sydney LeBlanc
Who’s doing what with in-house and third-party programs. | August 1, 2004 |
Actively Managed ETFs On Horizon
FA News
| July 20, 2004 |
Clearing Firms Come Courting
By Tracey Longo
The fastest-growing segment of business at most clearing firms is—you guessed it—the advisor channel. So it’s not surprising that clearing firms are devoting more attention and resources to advisors and their assets than ever before. | July 1, 2004 |
SMAs And Due Diligence: Streamlining The Process
By Sydney LeBlanc
Separately managed accounts (SMAs) have been touted as the Holy Grail of the investment industry—the wirehouses certainly bear witness to that premise. But what’s the story for independent advisors? | June 1, 2004 |
Risk Control: The Next Act For ETFs
By C. Michael Carty
New ETFs are being created as strategies and technology are developed. | May 1, 2004 |
Niche Players Provide More Choices For Advisors
By Raymond Fazzi
When it comes to custodial services for fee-based advisors, the dominance of a "Big Three” hasn’t stopped smaller niche players from stepping in and finding areas in which to grow. | May 1, 2004 |
Professional Insights
By Hannah Shaw Grove and Russ Alan Prince
The following is excerpted from the authors’ most recent book, Wealth Management: The New Business Model for Financial Advisors. | April 1, 2004 |
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
By Sydney LeBlanc
Are advisor marketing tools and business development what they should be? | April 1, 2004 |
Filling The Tax-Favored Dividend Void
By Marla Brill
Pockets of opportunity exist for investors. | March 1, 2004 |
The Road to Recovery
By Eric L. Reiner
With manufacturing expansion reaching a 20-year high in December and new jobless claims falling to a three-year low Christmas week, little doubt remains that the U.S. economy is in recovery mode, at least for the moment. | February 1, 2004 |
Challenging Your Most Basic Assumptions
Joel P. Bruckenstein
The Investment Think Tank, a new book edited by Harold Evensky and Deena Katz, makes you rethink some fundamental priciples. | December 1, 2004 |
Look Mom! I Beat the S&P Again!
Christopher P. Parr
Legg’s Value Trust—relative fund superstar or absolute media hype? | December 1, 2004 |
Gold Rush
By Jim Wiandt
Low-cost ETFs representing gold bullion will revolutionize investing in gold.
| November 1, 2004 |
Thanks For The Memories
By Jeff Schlegel
Jerry Wade wants children to learn about World War II from the source.
| October 1, 2004 |
Managed Accounts
By Sydney LeBlanc and Lisa Gray
Concerns about municipal bond credit quality arising from the recession and the historically poor condition of state and municipal finances are driving an increasing number of advisors to look at alternatives to traditional bond mutual funds for their clients. | April 1, 2003 |
Qualified Plans Rock Through Bear Market
By Jeff Schlegel
The rising demand for advice is changing the 401(k) business.
| December 1, 2003 |
Unified We Stand
By Sydney LeBlanc
Just when advisors and their clients thought they had the hang of separately managed accounts, two big players in the business, Smith Barney and Lincoln Financial Advisors, gave them another acronym to throw into the alphabet soup: IIS (Integrated Investment Services) and LS (LincSolutions) platforms. | December 1, 2003 |
Sharpe Focus
By Evan Simonoff
Nobel laureate Bill Sharpe talks about changing perspectives on retirement. | April 1, 2002 |
2001 Indexes’ Odyssey
By Jim Wiandt
A handful of indexes took off compared with their peers.
Any way you slice it, from U.S. large growth to the Philippines, 2001 was not kind to equity indexes. While the United States was busy trying to cope with a massive terrorist attack, the rest of the world joined it in an uncharacteristically uniform march toward recession. | February 1, 2002 |
A Poor Year, But Rich Interest In ETFs
By James Pacetti
Their assets and numbers grew in 2001, despite the weak market.
Mutual fund companies are in their second year of tough times, with another difficult year in the equity markets. However, investment giants—like Barclays Global Investors, State Street Global Advisors, Bank of New York and Vanguard—continue to experience increasing interest in ETFs. Popular ETFs include benchmark indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Diamonds), NASDAQ 100 (QQQs) and the S&P 500 (SPDRs or iShare S&P 500). | February 1, 2002 |
Why Some Advisors Have An Advantage
Why Some Advisors Have An Advantage.
In a volatile market, SMA experience may help retain clients. | December 1, 2002 |
Getting Creative With ETFs
By Eric Rasmussen
Exchange-traded funds offer ways to hedge, cut taxes and allocate assets.
| July 1, 2001 |
No Limits To Growth
By Evan Simonoff
Sullivan, Bruyette, Speros & Blayney uses radical ideas to build a super-regional firm.
| May 1, 2001 |
New Twists On Old Plots
By Eric L. Reiner
Certain financial moves will help your clients save big on taxes.
| November 1, 2001 |
