FA News

Tiburon To Hold Annual CEO Summit

    Tiburon Strategic Advisors Principal Chip Roame will kick off the firm's 10th annual CEO summit next month with an address on the state of the financial services industry...

Fidelity Offers Reps Transition Tool

   Fidelity Investments has introduced a tool that helps reps plan out the transition to an RIA practice.    The online guide is available at ria.fidelity...

FPA Retreat To Focus On Learning

   The Financial Planning Association says its annual retreat this year will focus on "both the art and science" of financial planning...

Advisors Grapple With Indecisive Clients

    Industry experts seem to agree that the demand for financial advice is running high, but people's willingness to follow the advice may be another matter...

Baby Boomer Planning In Slow Lane

    The lack of retirement planning on the part of affluent baby boomers continues to be an area of potential opportunities for advisors, according to a recent survey...

Financial Advisor Plans Top RIA Ranking

   Financial Advisor is launching a special annual ranking of independent advisory firms that offer financial planning and related services along with investment management...

FPA Teams On Life Planning Web Site

   The Financial Planning Association has teamed up with the National Endowment for Financial Education to create an online life-stages financial planning tool...

Study: Bankruptcy Law Hurts Consumers

   A new report claims that recent revisions in the federal bankruptcy laws have made bankruptcy more costly and complicated-worsening situations for consumers who are facing...

Morningstar Launches Dividend Leader Index

   Morningstar Inc. has launched an index that allows income-focused investors to prioritize dividend yield...

AST Trust Purchases Capital Trust

    AST Trust Company, a division of American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, has acquired Capital Trust Co...

Schwab: No Falloff In Hedge Fund Interest

    Interest in hedge fund investing has cooled somewhat over the past two years, but Schwab Institutional says its advisors have steadily steered client money into its hedge fund...

Morningstar Added To TD Waterhouse Platform

    TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. is offerings its institutional services clients access to a branded version of Morningstar's Advisor Workstation...

FPA To Hold Retreat In Scottsdale, Ariz.

   The Financial Planning Association has announced its annual retreat will be held in Scottsdale, Ariz...

Intuit Poised to Release PortfolioMinder

   Intuit Inc. announced today that PortfolioMinder, their new Web-based portfolio management service, will be available to independent financial advisors before the end of...

Robert Hewitt Dies

   Robert Hewitt, one of the first generation of financial planners who served as president and chairman of the former International Association For Financial Planning...

Ex-SEC Chief: Merrill Rule Isn't 'End Game'

   The so-called "Merrill Lynch" rule that took effect last week and exempts certain brokers from the full set of responsibilities that registered investment advisors must...

Ex-Regulator Marvels At Wirehouse Blunder

   Tomorrow the so-called "Merrill Lynch" rule exempting brokers marketing fee-based accounts from crucial aspects of Registered Investment Advisor regulation becomes effective...

Sontag Expands To Connecticut

    Sontag Advisory, among the largest independent advisory firms on the East Coast, has expanded to Westport, Conn...

Globally Speaking, American Workers Plan Well

    Countless studies have reaffirmed the fact that Americans are lagging when it comes to retirement planning...

Advisor Confidence Drops In 2006

    Advisors have started the New Year off with concerns about the economy, according to a recent survey...