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Emerging markets offer opportunity
A number of financial trends have made emerging economies the high-growth option for international investing.
TD Ameritrade keeps lid on RIA metrics
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. reported a better-than-expected fiscal-third-quarter profit last week, but company executives had little to say about the firm's business for servicing independent registered investment advisers.
Use target date funds the right way
Given last year's investment results, especially in 2010 target date funds, there are many who question whether the target date fund concept itself is fatally flawed.
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Whenever I attend industry events, advisers often stop to tell me how much they enjoy InvestmentNews — our print edition, the website, our daily alerts, webcasts and monthly e-newsletters.
Last year’s big fund laggards rise to the top in first half
Consumer cyclical stocks, junk bonds, financial stocks and emerging-markets stocks were among the biggest losers last year, but during the first six months of this year, they propelled a handful of mutual funds to the top of the performance charts.
Some advisers see kids as a new frontier
In a bid to build their businesses, some financial advisers are turning to an untapped market: their clients' young children.
Blacks, Hispanics lag in retirement savings
Financial firms have bolstered their efforts to help financial advisers connect with minority clients, who typically aren't saving significantly for retirement.
Compensation: SEC mandate called too broad
Financial advisers are troubled by an administration proposal that would allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban commissions and take other sweeping actions regarding their fees.
Group targeting low-income families for 529 plans
The College Savings Initiative will hold its third round table tomorrow in Washington to discuss ways to make Section 529 college savings plans more widely available to lower-income families.
FIRMS REINVENT THEMSELVES
S THEIR BROKER-DEALER CLIENTS STRUGGLE and their own revenue drops, big clearing firms are targeting new — albeit…
SEEKING NEW BUSINESS
When Ben Marks set up shop as an independent registered investment adviser in November, he wasn't ready to give up the commissions that helped support him for more than a quarter century at large brokerage firms.
HURT BY FALLING PROFITS, FIRMS PRESSURED TO COMBINE
Like businesses across the financial services industry, clearing firms are feeling the pressure and the strain from the historic market downturn. It is a difficult and competitive business environment for the firms, which are key partners to broker-dealers, clearing and settling transactions for them and their representatives.
Using client reviews to rebuild trust
Investors are angry, scared and looking for someone to blame for the economic downturn, and unfortunately, advisers often are the scapegoats, bearing the brunt.
Jury is out on punishing perpetrators of financial fraud
Last fall, all hell broke loose in the securities markets — a perfect storm with global fallout. No country escaped the impact of the monumental greed, corruption and sickness that had permeated U.S. markets.
Raids ‘blindside’ small B-Ds as brokers go for the gold
Recent raiding at broker-dealers has sparked ugly and bitter feuds and led to significant damage awards, and financial industry attorneys and experts see more cases in the offing.
Markets remain rocky; Asia looks appealing
Investors should prepare for a roller-coaster ride for the rest of the year as equity markets struggle to make headway.
Keeping the faith
A coalition of faith-based in-vestors who were pioneers in the shareholder activist movement is getting set for its…
Schwab to waive fees for its RIAs’ new clients
The Charles Schwab Corp. is dipping into its deep pockets to help independent advisers capture business from full-service brokers.
Do you ‘get’ female investors?
For all the talk of advisers recognizing the importance of female investors, it still seems there's a way to go.
