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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 16, 2014
Embracing two routes to growth helps draw in assets

Modera Wealth Management has spread out business development responsibilities to all advisers and wealth managers, not just owners.

By Liz Skinner
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 16, 2014
A road map for navigating the changing financial planning landscape

Cetera's CEO's deep dive into one of the defining challenges – and opportunities – for the advice industry over the next 10 years.

By Larry Roth
ALTERNATIVES NOV 16, 2014
Nicholas Schorsch's RCS Capital could be facing major changes

RCAP may remake itself to boost value with stock down 39% since late October

By Bruce Kelly
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 16, 2014
Client protection ruse needs to stop

Advisers should demand that industry organizations speaking for them don't let greed overshadow their true mission to help people live sound financial lives.

By Andrew Leigh
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 14, 2014
DOL to review documents in 401(k) excessive fee suit

The Department of Labor will look for a possible ERISA violation after making an unprecedented petition to look at the case documents last summer.

By Darla Mercado
FINTECH NOV 14, 2014
Finra survey shows investors want more regulatory protection

They're willing to pay a little extra for it, too.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
FINTECH NOV 14, 2014
Five tax moves made easier with technology

Software can make these labor-intensive strategies a breeze.

By Sheryl Rowling
RIAS NOV 14, 2014
Lebenthal taps into a gusher of wealth in oil-rich North Dakota

'Home-grown' advisers will open office to serve new millionaires with little investing experience.

By Mason Braswell
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 13, 2014
Economy's biggest casualty? The traditional family

The decline of the married American household has put more people at financial risk

By Bloomberg
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 13, 2014
These personality tests help advisers make the right hiring call

Many advisory firm owners use personality tests and other assessments to help hire the right people. Get the inside scoop on some do's and don'ts from people using these tools.

By Liz Skinner
FINTECH NOV 12, 2014
When slow Internet happens to fast people

Blogger goes where life is slow and the Internet is slower.

By Sheryl Rowling
EQUITIES NOV 12, 2014
Strong dollar makes a strong case for currency-hedged ETFs

Midweek <i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> What's making dollar bulls cheer. Plus: Picking winners and losers in the net-neutrality fight, Goldman's coveted promotion cycle, Dems suddenly like the Keystone XL pipeline, and Tim Geithner ruffles the Europeans.

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES NOV 12, 2014
Broker-dealers slap a stop order on Nicholas Schorsch's REITs

B-Ds halting sales of Schorsch's REITs include some of the largest and most influential in the industry

By Bruce Kelly
RIAS NOV 12, 2014
Rival Fidelity shows up uninvited at Schwab Impact

Fidelity takes an opportunity to steal some of Charles Schwab's spotlight during the Impact conference, bombarding attendees with its own marketing assault.

By Mason Braswell
FINTECH NOV 12, 2014
How advisers can get the most out of video

By Kristen Luke
FINTECH NOV 12, 2014
Ready for prime time: Advisers get into launching their own video series

As video grows in popularity, advisers are using it as a new way to reach clients and prospects.

By Joyce Hanson
FINTECH NOV 11, 2014
LPL advisers' commissions land in their bank accounts one day late

As processing error delays commissions by a day, president Robert Moore moves to reassure advisers.

By Bruce Kelly
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 10, 2014
Finra CEO Rick Ketchum backs off data collection plan

In prepared testimony slated for Friday, the Finra CEO says he will not move forward with the regulator's plan for a new data collection system until all industry concerns are addressed.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 10, 2014
Pimco paid billionaire Gross $290 million bonus in 2013

In 2013, when Pimco's Total Return Fund trailed a majority of peers, the money manager paid former CIO Bill Gross a gigantic sum.

By Bloomberg
EQUITIES NOV 10, 2014
Sweet deal at Goldman Sachs lets partners invest alongside the bank

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> It's all about access at Goldman. Plus: U.S. soldiers sue banks for helping Iran finance attacks in Iraq, adjusting portfolios for a fourth-quarter ride, oil prices are expected to hang low till the next OPEC meeting, and a hats off to companies taking their hats off to veterans today.

By Jeff Benjamin