Evan
Simonoff is editor-in-chief and editorial director of Financial Advisor
magazine, as well as editorial director of Private Wealth magazine. He
has spent more than 15 years as an editor and reporter covering the
financial services industry. Evan is a widely recognized expert on
personal finance and investments.
The first problem that financial advisors need to address with clients
approaching retirement isn't risk tolerance; it's finding investments
that can match their liabilities, or living expenses.
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What was so normal about the old normal? Buying a house with no
financial documentation? A negative savings rate? Three billion credit-card solicitations in one
year? That was what Mellody...
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Bob Reynolds, chairman and CEO of Boston-based Putnam Investments, said
that the wave of regulations coming out of Washington won't end in 2010...
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It's still unclear what regulatory reform will look like, but Tom
Bradley, CEO of TD Ameritrade's institutional unit, says small RIA
firms may need to consider merging with other firms or...
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Few pieces I've ever written generated as much interest as Financial
Advisor's Big Picture column in the September issue on Roger Ibbotson's
research into the amazing premium the stock market...
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Despite a series of economic reports pointing to a continuing anemic
recovery, Research Affiliates founder Rob Arnott believes the odds of a
double-dip recession remain above 50%.
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The way the U.S. government taxes capital gains makes little sense. That
in itself is not surprising. But it is counter-productive when it comes
to long-term capital formation.
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It is an unfortunate fact that we live in a world of imbalances. Three years ago, the global economy was dependent on American consumers
shopping until they dropped, which they finally have...
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Unless something major happens in the next three months, the first
Tuesday in November won't be "much fun for Democrats," according to former
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.
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When it comes to the art of being a silver-tongued purveyor of doom,
Nouriel Roubini can't hold a candle to Jeremy Grantham...
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As I reread the interview I did with Fiduciary Network CEO Mark Hurley
in the July issue, it suddenly dawned on me how prescient many of his
observations were, particularly about the benefits and...
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Watching events unfold in Greece and the rest of Europe over the last
month, I couldn't help but think of a scene from the 1981 movie, Fort
Apache, The Bronx, in which Paul Newman plays a cynical,...
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A financial advisor who occasionally moonlights as an expert witness recently told me that he had many more requests to testify than he can handle...
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If all goes according to expectations, next year the federal tax rate on
capital gains will rise for the first time in 23 years from 15% to 20%...
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Evan Simonoff
Since this decade has commenced a few short months ago, the U.S. dollar
has defied conventional wisdom and appreciated fairly dramatically...
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