FA News

Seminar Focuses On Retiring Baby Boomers

    Dealing with the pension and IRA issues of the more than 76 million baby boomers nearing retirement will be the subject of a day-long seminar by The American College...

EISI Acquires Financial Profiles

   Emerging Information Systems Inc., the developer of NaviPlan financial planning software today announced the acquisition of Financial Profiles Inc...

Bond Fund Manager Looks Overseas

   If you're a bond fund manager in the U.S. looking for returns, where do you go?    For at least one manager, the answer is, across the...

LPL To Acquire Uvest Financial

   LPL Financial Services announced today it has agreed to buy Uvest Financial Services of Charlotte, N.C...

Investors Not Sold On "One-Stop" Shops

    One-stop shopping for all financial service needs remains a pie-in-the-sky concept that has yet to be embraced by affluent investors, according to a new survey...

American College To Hold 77Th Commencement

    The American College will launch a three-day series of lectures and seminars in November that will conclude with the school's 77th commencement ceremony...

Advisor Confidence Improves In July

    Advisor confidence perked up in July despite continued worries over oil prices, interest rates and the cooling real estate market, according to the Rydex Advisor Confidence...

Bill Carter Receives FPA Fain Award

   Bill Carter-an advisor and a Dallas area community leader-has been named the recipient of the Financial Planning Association's 2006 P. Kemp Fain, Jr.,...

Fidelity, SunGard To Integrate Brokerage, Trade Automation

   Fidelity Investments, the world's largest mutual fund company, and SunGard, a provider of software and processing solutions for financial service firms, yesterday announced an...

Morningstar To Buy Hedge Fund, SMA Database

    Morningstar has announced a $10 million acquisition designed to bulk up its research database of hedge funds and separate accounts...

Lifecycle/Lifestyle Funds Gain In Popularity

   Advisors are apparently making good use of lifecycle and lifestyle funds, according to a recent survey by Russell Investment Group...

New Goldman Fund Targets Brazil. Russia, India, China

   Goldman Sachs has launched a fund that places a bet on the future growth of four emerging market behemoths...

Schwab Upgrades Performance Tech Web Site

    Schwab Institutional has expanded the tools available to independent advisors on its Schwab Performance Technologies (SPT) Web site...

CRM Software Releases Junxure-i 6.0

   CRM Software has announced the release of Junxure-i version 6.0, the latest incarnation of their popular office management system. Version 6...

Fiduciary Standard Optional In Revised CFP Rules

   The CFP Board of Standards released today proposed rules changes that would allow certificants to choose whether or not they should act as fiduciaries for their...

More States Declare Sales-Tax Holidays

   More than a dozen states are declaring sales-tax holidays this year, allowing consumers to shop tax-free-largely for back-to-school items including clothing, computers and...

Morningstar Platform Adds Portfolio Accounting

   Morningstar Inc...

Sincere Launches Small Cap Value Fund

    Sincere & Co., a mutual fund marketing and distribution company serving independent advisors, has launched a mutual fund of its own...

SEC To Weigh Impact Of Broker Exemption

   The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is getting ready to see how investors have been impacted by having two sets of regulations for fee-based brokers and investment...

Franklin Templeton Expands Reach Of Trust Services

    Franklin Templeton Bank & Trust has extended the reach of its trust service offerings through a network of 2,200 service reps...