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BondDesk Offers E*TRADE Easier Access to Auction Rate Securities

    BondDesk Group, a leading odd-lot fixed-income electronic trading platform and provider of software solutions to the securities industry, recently announced it will begin...

ETFs May Lose Some Appeal In 401(k) Plans

    Exchange-traded funds have been a glittering success for the fund industry; but in 401(k) accounts, they may lose much of their luster for investors...

CFP Board Finalizes Fiduciary And Disclosure Ethics

After a long and arduous process, the CFP Board announced today at a press conference that it had approved the final version of its revised ethical standards, making it explicit that the nearly...

Wachovia Sees A.G. Edwards Deal As A Means To Reach Wealthy

   Wachovia's acquisition of brokerage A.G. Edwards Inc. will give the banking firm more access to wealthy individuals and retirees, Wachovia Corp...

Education Requirements Most Common For Heirs

   The knowledge that trillions of dollars will be conveyed from the first of the baby boomer generation to their heirs within the next decade is prompting financial planners to...

Advisors Less Confident About Economy, Stock Market

   A number of economic factors are combining to make financial advisors more pessimistic about the immediate future of the investment world, according to a recently released survey...

TD Ameritrade To Buy Fiserve RIA Operations

   TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. has agreed to acquire Fiserv Trust Co...

Bono, Wynn To Speak At Schwab Impact

U2 lead singer Bono, Wynn Resorts CEO Stephen Wynn and NewsweekInternational editor Fareed Zakaria will be the keynote speakers at thisyear¹s Schwab Impact conference at The Mandalay Bay...

Fidelity Adds Three New Advisor Funds

   Fidelity Investments has added three new funds to its Fidelity Advisor family, covering international real estate, investments in Canada and small caps...

"Happyness" Author Heads FPA Speaker List

    Chris Gardner, the self-made businessman on whom the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" was based, will be one of the keynote speakers at the Financial Planning Association's...

New Futures Contracts Track Company Earnings

   The HedgeStreet Exchange plans to launch a class of futures contracts that allows investors to trade on the anticipated revenues and earnings per share of large public...

Schwab Performance Technologies Launches Two Initiatives

   Schwab Performance Technologies, a leading provider of portfolio management and reporting software for independent RIA's, recently announced two new offerings...

Fidelity to Integrate CRM, Planning Apps

   Fidelity Investments today announced that they plan to offer a customized, integrated CRM and financial planning application for registered investment advisors...

Report: Retirement Income Planning Crucial

   If financial advisors want to be successful, they're going to have to shift more of their focus on retirement income planning to serve the aging baby boom generation, according...

Morningstar To Provide Wireless Fund, ETF Data

    Morningstar Inc...

Advisor Confidence On Rebound

    Advisors' confidence in the economy and stock market rebounded in April after taking a record plunge in March, according to Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Inc...

FPA Announces May VLC Sessions

   The Financial Planning Association has released its May lineup of Virtual Learning Center sessions...

New York FPA Gives Nick Murray Its Award

   The New York chapter of the Financial Planning Association gave its 2007Malcolm S...

Will the Third CFP Board CEO Be the Charm?

   The CFP Board of Standards, which has had trouble keeping CEO's the past several years, is hoping a 20-year veteran of a financial services membership organization will be the...

Rembert and Fox Settle their Lawsuit Averting Trial Seeking Millions in Damages

With the aid of their attorneys, former advisory firm principals Don Rembert and Marjorie Fox settled their respective lawsuit and countersuit over who owned advisory clients after she was...