FA News

College, Insurance Group Create Designation

   The American College and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) have teamed to offer a new designation for financial service professionals in the...

SRI Funds Active In Shareholder Initiatives

   Mutual funds that utilize a "socially responsible investing" style are more likely to side with shareholders than conventional funds when it comes to corporate governance,...

FPA Aims To Revitalize Its PAC

   The Financial Planning Association, as part of a broad effort to revitalize its advocacy efforts, has named a board of directors to run its political action committee...

Fidelity To Launch New RIA Platform

   Fidelity Investments recently announced the launch of an integrated, single sign-on technology platform designed to help independent RIA's simplify workflow and increase...

Schwab Institutional Names COO

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New Matchmaking Services Offered To Advisors

   Financial advisors now have another place to turn to for online client recruitment.    The Paladin Registry, at www.paladinregistry...

Debt Problems Top Priority Among Workers

   Repeated studies show workers are not wisely investing the money they have to prepare for retirement-giving rise to investment education in the workplace...

Advisors Plan For Everyone But Themselves

   Financial advisors, it turns out, have something in common with their clients: many of them are not prepared for retirement...

Managers Bullish On Large Cap Growth

    Investment managers are taking more notice of large cap growth equities, while the energy sector keeps chugging along as one of the market's most bullish sectors...

Planners Key In On Broker Exemption Rule

   The broker-dealer exemption to the Investment Adviser Act and Social Security reform are high on the priority list for financial planners...

Vanguard Adds Three International ETFs

   Vanguard has launched three new exchange-traded funds tied to three of the company's international index funds...

Real Estate Drives Direct Investment Sales

   Publicly registered direct investment programs raised about $7 billion last year-about 90% of which came from real estate programs...

Ameritrade Cuts Options Fees

   Ameritrade has become the latest brokerage company to fire a volley in the industry's ongoing price war...

CFP Board CEO Wants More Services, Streamlining

    A few months into her job as CEO of the CFP Board of Standards, Sarah Ball Teslik is aiming for sweeping changes in how the organization serves its certificants and...

Medicare Problems Loom Large

    Social Security reform is getting a lot of attention this year, but the real monkey wrench in the nation's entitlement system may actually be...

Advisors Coping With Compliance Rules

    The majority of advisors are adapting to stricter compliance rules and successfully absorbing the added expenses, according to a new...

Sexes Divided On Money Issues

    It seems that money matters are not exactly on par with candy and roses when it comes to bringing the opposite sexes closer together...

Vanguard Charity Fund Hits High Mark

     The Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program donor-advised fund has set a high-water mark in its charitable giving...

Advisors Looking To baby boomers

     Baby boomers could be fertile ground for advisory businesses looking to identify a target market, according to a recent research...

Pundit Says Support Weak On Social Security Plan

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