Financial advisers are warning their clients to donate only to well-known organizations if they want to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
St. Louis-based brokerage firm says it is reaping the benefits from the national trend of financial advisers exiting bigger brokerages and bringing their clients with them
The key tonic to the past 10 years was a more diversified, less equity-centric approach.
After watching the fall of GunnAllen Financial Inc. become official this morning, the firm's founders —Donald James “Jay” Gunn and Richard Allen Frueh —are apparently moving to a rival broker-dealer.
Version 2.2 of the popular financial-planning software was introduced in November. The application has several new features, including an internal Roth IRA conversion feature as well as a stand-alone Roth IRA conversion calculator that can be used by financial advisers who need to create financial plans for clients and prospects.
Fidelity Investments introduced a free online Roth IRA conversion calculator last month to both its independent registered investment advisers and the broker-dealer clients that clear through National Financial Services LLC.
Earlier in the year I asked a regular source of mine, H. Jude Boudreaux, director of financial planning at Bellingrath Wealth Management, to “test drive” four different free calculators available on the Internet.
Technology providers and product companies have been rolling out Roth IRA conversion calculators in a bid to meet the expected needs of advisers and their clients ahead of some significant changes in conversion rules for next year.
Advisers typically are encountered by wholesalers from fund companies on an almost daily basis.
A year after Wall Street failures plunged the nation into recession, the House on Friday passed the most ambitious restructuring of financial regulation since the New Deal.
RBC Wealth Management has recruited a pair of financial advisers from US Trust Wealth Management, where they ran some $450 million in client assets.
Two senior financial advisers from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney have left RBC Wealth Management.
RBC Wealth Management has added two senior financial advisers from Smith Barney with $340 million in client assets as the regional brokerage firm continues to recruit brokers a rapid clip.
Advisers are warning their clients to donate only to well-known organizations if they want to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.
As December winds down, now is the time to reflect on the last year and determine what, if anything, you would have done differently in your practice or even in your personal life
Wanted: adviser's assistant. Must have a bachelor's degree, a “nurturing gene” and the ability to speak Farsi.
New versions of Profiles Professional and Profiles Forecaster are available from Emerging Information Systems Inc.
Most financial advisers with whom I speak say that they look forward to generating quarterly reports and client presentations about as much as they do to an SEC audit.
Advisers should always kick the tires and look under the hood of any software they buy for their practice.
