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"Casual" Attire Benefits Serious Causes

   Investors Capital Corp. has found a "casual" way to generate money for some serious causes...

CFP Ethics Code Proposal Places Client First

   All CFP certificants who provide financial planning services would be required to provide clients with the "care of a fiduciary" under a second revision of the CFP Board of...

Now It's The 'Big Four' In RIA Custodial Services

   The independent advisor custodial services market has in recent years been dominated by the Big Three. Now, however, the dominating companies are a foursome...

FPA Pro Bono Center Gets $295,000

   The Financial Planning Association pro bono support program-created five years ago to serve victims of the September 11 terror attacks-has received a $295,000 grant from the...

CRM Software Releases Junxure ClientView 2.0

   CRM Software, creators of the popular Junxure CRM software for advisors, has announced the release of Junxure ClientView 2.0.    Unlike ClientView 1...

CFP Board Gives Ethics Revision Second Try

   The CFP Board of Standards board of directors says it will release a second draft of its controversial ethical standards revisions at a public meeting on March...

The Hartford Aims To Boost Employer Retirement Plan Assets

   The Hartford has launched an awareness campaign to capture a bigger chunk of the fast-growing employer retirement plan market. "This is truly an underserved market...

Fiduciary Network Buys Stakes in RegentAtlantic, Evensky & Katz

    Fiduciary Network, a holding company created by former Undiscovered Managers CEO Mark Hurley and New York investor Howard Milstein, has agreed to acquire minority stakes in...

More Room To Roam For "Fiduciary Advisors"

   If the land of fiduciaries were a country, it would be one without rigidly defined borders. There is no Maginot Line. People have different opinions about who is a citizen here...

PWM Created To Acquire Advisory Firms

   The latest entrant into the consolidation game, Private Wealth Management (PWM), opened its doors in mid-February...

New Group to Promote Software Integration

   Greg Friedman and Ken Golding, principals at CRM Software, the developers of Junxure CRM software and ClientView office management software, recently announced the formation of...

TD Ameritrade to Provide Free Form Filling Software

   Advisors who custody assets with TD Ameritrade Institutional will soon be eligible to receive free form filling software developed by Laser App...

Morningstar Offers Managed Stock Accounts

    Morningstar Investment Services-the investment management arm of Morningstar Inc.-has launched a new separately managed account offering aimed at the independent advisor...

Business Execs Fret Over Dem Tax Policy

   The Democratic takeover of Congress has many interest groups bracing for changes, including finance and tax executives, who seem pretty certain the new leadership will raise...

Survey: Alternative Investments Growing On RIAs

    Investments advisors appear poised to accelerate their use of alternative investments such as hedge funds, real estate and commodities, according to a new poll...

Soft Landing Predicted, Despite Property's 'Cement Boots'

   Paul McCulley, managing director at PIMCO, told attendees today at the TD Ameritrade annual conference in San Diego that the U.S. economy is going to have a soft...

Eaton Vance Sales Exec Dies

   Eaton Vance Corp. announced that Wharton P. "Whit" Whitaker, chief of the company's worldwide sales and marketing organization, died on Saturday...

Acquisitions Bring Focus Financial $10B AUM

Focus Financial Partners LLC, a New York-based wealth management firm, has announced a series of acquisitions that will bring with it $10 billion in client assets and a national reach that extends...

Schwab Platform To Include Trust Accounting

    Schwab Institutional plans to add trust accounting capabilities to its fee-based custody and trading platform...

Fidelity Redesigns Advisor Web Site

    Fidelity Investments-in what it says is part of a multi-year Internet initiative-has launched a newly designed Web site for its advisor clients...