June 2004

  • Clients Misbehavin'

    Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman applies lessons from behavioral finance to client management. Read More

  • Professional Insights

    (The following article is the first in a series, based on a new survey of 603 small business owners with total personal net worth of more than $7 billion, which examines their financial lives, their... Read More

  • Advice & Trust

    You already know what it takes to succeed: Fill your appointment calendar with qualified people, convert many of those prospects into clients, competently do your job, and deliver an experience for... Read More

  • Profession In Motion

    Mary Anne Ehlert found a unique, rewarding way to set her business apart. Read More

  • Past Results Really May Indicate Future Performance

    Five for five. That‚s the heady batting average of a new, if not experimental, mutual fund selection technique that began predicting outperformers last year... Read More

  • What You Don't Know About TIPS

    Much has been written of late extolling what many perceive to be the unparalleled virtues of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, often referred to as TIPS. The U.S... Read More

  • Why Value Beats Growth

    Asset allocation combined with value investing produces better results. Read More

Clients Misbehavin'

by Harold Evensky

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman applies lessons from behavioral finance to client management.

Professional Insights

by Hannah Shaw Grove and Russ Alan Prince

(The following article is the first in a series, based on a new survey of 603 small business owners with total personal net worth of more than $7 billion, which examines their financial lives, their...

Advice & Trust

by Bill Bachrach

You already know what it takes to succeed: Fill your appointment calendar with qualified people, convert many of those prospects into clients, competently do your job, and deliver an experience for...

Profession In Motion

by Dan Sullivan

Mary Anne Ehlert found a unique, rewarding way to set her business apart.

Past Results Really May Indicate Future Performance

by Eric L. Reiner

Five for five. That‚s the heady batting average of a new, if not experimental, mutual fund selection technique that began predicting outperformers last year...

What You Don't Know About TIPS

by Dan Fuss and John Hyll

Much has been written of late extolling what many perceive to be the unparalleled virtues of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, often referred to as TIPS. The U.S...

Why Value Beats Growth

by Kevin M. Wilson

Asset allocation combined with value investing produces better results.

The Flight From REITS

by Raymond Fazzi

Investors hunting for high yields or capital appreciation sell off.

The Cash Conundrum

by Marla Brill

Should fund managers let cash build or stay fully invested at all times?

The Roth 401(k) May Be Here Soon

by Michael E. Kitces

This May is the three-year anniversary of the Economic Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA, passed May 26, 2001)–yet we still face another year-and-a-half before the newly...

Winning Women Clients

by Tracey Longo

Here‚s what you need to know to build a good roster of women investors.

Advisors Are Living Dangerously

by Gregory Bresiger

Don‚t need it. Don‚t want it. Don‚t think I can afford it. Don‚t see the point of it. Don‚t think it will really provide coverage when crunch time comes.

Special Needs Planning Requires Pioneering Spirit

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There isn‚t a lot of information out there to help financial professionals deal with the special needs of clients with disabled family members...

When VUL Lapses

by Raymond Fazzi

Even though the bear market seems to have subsided, the fallout from those three years of losses may have yet to be dealt with if you have clients with variable universal life policies.

Higher Commodity Prices Are Here To Stay

by Marla Brill

Fund manager Leigh Goehring thinks a new bull market is just beginning.

SMAs And Due Diligence: Streamlining The Process

by Sydney LeBlanc

Separately managed accounts (SMAs) have been touted as the Holy Grail of the investment industry–the wirehouses certainly bear witness to that premise...

Converting Prospects Into Clients

by Joel P. Bruckenstein

Wouldn‚t it be great if you could find a tool that helped you differentiate your practice, convert more prospects to clients, retain those clients and construct better investment portfolios for...

Compliance Overload

by Tracey Longo

A white-hot regulatory agenda is bedeviling independent broker-dealers.

Mutual Fund Industry Being Forced In Wrong Direction

by Gary Schneider

Proposed standards are wrongheaded and unnecessary.

Advisor Emporium

ADVISOR EMPORIUM

Principal Financial Adds Program For Business Owners Des Moines, Iowa-based Principal Financial Group, a provider of 401(k) and employee benefits products, has added...

Editor's Note

EDITOR'S NOTE

The Next Wave   Evan Simonoff Editor-in-Chief In late April I had the opportunity to attend a panel discussion of four female consumers talking about...

Letters to the Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Advisors Should Evaluate Annuities I read with interest the April FA article "Conservatism Rules" and, similar to the advisors quoted, over the past several years we and...