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Will newly proposed tax changes whack the wealthy?
With the Bush tax cuts extended for another two years, the status remains quo on major — and imminent — potential changes in tax law, right?
Using psychology to combat clients’ penchant for money mistakes
Behavioral-finance experts have come up with a few strategies for financial advisers working to help clients overcome natural human tendencies that can lead to money-related mistakes.
Rockefeller snags ex-Goldman exec as new CEO
Ten months after the death of its former chief executive, wealth management firm Rockefeller Financial today hired Reuben Jeffery III, a former government official and Goldman Sachs' executive, as its chief executive.
Look beyond cloud’s silver lining
System failures in recent weeks involving such companies as Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Corp. have cast doubts on the security and reliability of cloud computing, and should put financial advisers on high alert
GOP, Dems on surprising sides of means-testing clash
You had to figure the issue of means testing for entitlement programs would split Republicans and Democrats. And it has -- just not the way you'd think.
DOL should go slow on fiduciary update
In its zeal to improve protection of retirement plan participants from bad advice and conflicts of interest, the Department of Labor is proposing a rule change that, though well-intended, is too broad and may leave some participants more vulnerable than they already are
Where the world’s wealthiest clients are — and will be
The cumulative wealth of the world's richest households will more than double, to $202 trillion over the next ten years, according to a study conducted by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services and Oxford Economics.
Fed fiddles while inflation starts to simmer
What do Ben S. Bernanke and his fellow Federal Reserve monetary policymakers not see?
Memo to Congress: It’s time for SEC to be self-funded
The time has come for Congress to cut the purse strings that have long impeded the SEC's ability to do its job
Much-anticipated site for investors good news/bad news for advisers
BrightScope Inc. has launched a free online service that will allow investors to look up financial advisers
Startup Washington Wealth Management snags MSSB big John Simmons
Virginia-based firm looking to add more wirehouse advisers; founder touts adviser transition program
Legg Mason overhauls executive ranks
Following a quarter in which it sustained nearly $13 billion in net outflows, Legg Mason Inc. is reorganizing its senior ranks
The Hartford nabs VA exec from Jackson
Steve Kluever has parted ways with Jackson National Life Insurance Co., joining The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and heralding a new push in variable annuity development for the insurer
Urge investors to vote all their proxies
Thirty-five years ago, legendary management thinker Peter Drucker described a monumental change in business ownership in his book,…
TD adding 90 new RIA firms each quarter: Tomczyk
Revenues up, net new assets up, custody business up. It's hard to find much that went wrong for the discount brokerage in the first quarter of the year.
Reps, advisers still going independent, still doing it for the dough
A Fidelity survey finds advisers and brokers are still striking out on their own. And they're taking more and more of their assets with them when they leave.
IRAs going under the microscope ─ are advisers prepared?
Jamey Delaplane, partner at law firm Davis & Harman LLP, warned advisers in attendance at the InvestmentNews Retirement Income Summit that IRAs are likely to come under increased regulatory scrutiny.
Portfolio management theory all wrong, claims economist
Focus on optimal portfolios – rather than optimal investment strategies – a big mistake, says Muralidhar; death to CAPM
New muni bond tool could shock clients
Few investors grasp the damage inflation can do to long-term debt. But a new online tool from BondView might help bring clients' expectations in line with reality.
Advisory firms looking to hire – but are the candidates any good?
Growing frustration over prospective hires' professionalism, honesty — and comp demands; 'deficient passion for the industry'
