The
Financial Planning Association is asking the Securities and Exchange
Commission to clarify when a broker-dealer is considered exempt from
the Investment Advisers Act of...
As
investor awareness of market risk and the value of asset allocation
have grown, non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) have
become a major component of many...
Morningstar Inc...
Investors Capital Corp. has found a "casual" way to generate money for some serious causes...
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...
Separately Managed Account Survey
March 2007 Financial Advisor Magazine
The
independent advisor custodial services market has in recent years been
dominated by the Big Three. Now, however, the dominating companies are
a foursome...
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, creators of the popular Junxure CRM software for advisors,
has announced the release of Junxure ClientView 2.0.
Unlike ClientView
1...
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 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, a holding company created by former Undiscovered
Managers CEO Mark Hurley and New York investor Howard Milstein, has
agreed to acquire minority stakes in...
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...
The latest entrant into the consolidation game,
Private Wealth Management (PWM), opened its doors in mid-February...
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...
Advisors who custody assets with TD Ameritrade Institutional will soon be eligible to receive free form filling software developed by Laser App...
Morningstar Investment Services-the investment management arm of
Morningstar Inc.-has launched a new separately managed account offering
aimed at the independent advisor...
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...
Investments advisors appear poised to accelerate their use of
alternative investments such as hedge funds, real estate and
commodities, according to a new poll...
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...
