The South American nation is increasingly seen as a desirable investment opportunity.
The U.S. ETF market is forecast to more than double by 2017, thanks in part to growing use by advisors and self-directed investors.
Advisors working with dying clients need both financial acumen and human compassion.
Cerulli Associates says financial advisor headcount will decline through 2016 at a compound annual rate of 1.2%.
Savant Capital Management has launched an online platform designed to attract new clients around the U.S. and to serve them remotely with all of the services that existing clients get.
Actively managed ETFs are growing in number, but active equity-based funds are slow to catch on.
More M&A deals were completed in the first quarter, but total assets under management involved declined significantly.
Advisors ponder how to play the inevitable end of quantitative easing.
In a recent Pershing survey about financial advisors’ time management, advisors said they would fire an average of 13% of their clients.
Ninety-four percent of U.S. corporate defined-benefit pension plans were underfunded in 2012, the same as the prior year.