Evan Simonoff is editor-in-chief and editorial director of Financial Advisor magazine, as well as editorial director of Private Wealth magazine. He has spent more than 15 years as an editor and reporter covering the financial services industry. Evan is a widely recognized expert on personal finance and investments.
In his latest quarterly letter, Jeremy Grantham postulates that if the Standard & Poor's 500 overcorrects like the average of the past 10 great (pre-Greenspan) equity bubbles, the index could...
At a time when many custodians are setting up lending programs to help RIAs finance acquisitions and internal succession, a top lawyer sees the programs as problematic.
Ask a former British Labour leader and an Orange County Republican about the future of capitalism, and the answers shouldn't be surprising...
Surprise, surprise...
One of the more damning pieces of information the FBI has against former Napfa President Mark Spangler is an affidavit that claims he had planned to travel to Ecuador on September 25.
After oversight of RIAs with less than $100 million in assets under management is transferred to the states, the SEC will have 18 to 20 examiners for every RIA firm with over $100 million in...
David Kelly, chief market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, is raising his odds on a U.S. recession to 25%, thanks largely to what he considers policy blunders by U.S...
During Ronald Reagan's presidency, the U.S. economy created 18 million new jobs. During Bill Clinton's two terms, that figure was 22 million. How are our 21st century presidents doing?
An intriguing study from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank has postulated that the aging of the baby boom generation will act as a depressant for equity prices for the next 15 years or so...
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner told his hostess that if her taxes didn't go up, there would be looters climbing over the walls to her mansion to take all sorts of trinkets and other goodies...
The United Kingdom and France could be the next nations to face downgrades on their sovereign debt...
Some of the ideas to jump start the anemic U.S. economy-for that matter the global economy-are getting ludicrous...
I've always thought gold was a fool's investment--good for little else besides jewelry--but when three of the smartest advisors I know have 10% of clients' assets invested in the precious metal,...
If advisors were stunned by a finding from the Putnam Institute that the optimal retirement portfolio's equity allocation should be between 5% and 25%, they weren't alone...
Distracted by headlines, financial advisors and other U.S. investors may be missing the best investment opportunity for the next decade: U.S. equities, says Richard Bernstein.