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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 02, 2009
Office décor can color bottom line

Financial adviser Ted Feight used to deck out his office with three-foot tall bodybuilding trophies and a large rug depicting a deer.

By Bloomberg
FINTECH DEC 01, 2009
XBRL still a foreign language for advisers

By Davis Janowski
FINTECH DEC 01, 2009
Envestnet adviser platform adds retirement planning tools

Advisers on the integrated-wealth-management platform at Envestnet Inc. — which services more than 650,000 investor accounts — now have access to a new set of retirement income tools called PlanHorizon.

By Davis Janowski
RETIREMENT PLANNING DEC 01, 2009
MoneyGuidePro Version 2.2 now available

A significant update to the popular financial planning program MoneyGuidePro was rolled out last week.

By Davis Janowski
FINTECH DEC 01, 2009
National Financial announces integration of workstation with the Thomson One Wealth Management platform

Today marks the start of another offensive in the war to attract and retain advisers through <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090607/REG/306079968/1035&amp;ht=&quot;" target="&#8221;_blank&#8221;" rel="noopener noreferrer">technology</a>.

By Davis Janowski
FINTECH DEC 01, 2009
Can two serve more efficiently as one?

Three months after the creation of Thomson Reuters, company executives are promising financial advisers that an improved platform is on the way.

By Bloomberg
RIAS NOV 30, 2009
Raymond James ups the ante for RIAs, raises asset requirements

Raymond James Financial Services revealed a new strategy for targeting &#8220;elite&#8221; registered investment advisers.

By Bloomberg
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 29, 2009
A New Year's resolution: Step up your rep

The most important thing for advisers to think about as we head into a new year is their reputation and image.

By Jennifer Connelly
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 29, 2009
Ex-Wall Street brokers choose new beat: NYPD

They used to ride desks and flog stocks, but now some Wall Street refugees are choosing to walk a beat and chase bad guys.

By Bruce Kelly
FINTECH NOV 25, 2009
Advisers are harnessing Internet for social networking

A legion of intrepid financial advisers are twittering, linking in and in many other ways harnessing the power of the Internet to network socially in a bid to expand their practices.

By Davis Janowski
FINTECH NOV 25, 2009
But I just learned HTML

What is a telltale sign that a subject has arrived?

By Bloomberg
FINTECH NOV 25, 2009
SEC proposes XBRL for mutual funds

SEC has unanimously approved a proposal that would require mutual funds to use computer tags to label key information about fees, performance and strategies.

By Bloomberg
FINTECH NOV 25, 2009
Inside XBRL

Extensible business reporting language, or XBRL, is a language standard used to communicate business and financial information electronically.

By Bloomberg
FINTECH NOV 25, 2009
XBRL plan a win-win for industry, investors

No one can accuse Christopher Cox of being a neophyte when it comes to technology.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 24, 2009
Approach Roth IRA calculators with caution

Financial advisers beware: All Roth IRA conversion calculators are not created equal.

By Davis Janowski
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 23, 2009
Devote time now to prepare a business plan for next year

After the turbulent year that many advisers have had, your goals should be to stay focused and keep things simple. Your business plan should include dividing clients into appropriate categories, developing a detailed communications plan with investment and lifestyle ideas, setting goals for assets under management, creating tiered service levels, and devising a top-client asset retention strategy.

By Bloomberg
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 22, 2009
Labor Department reworking investment advice rule

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
FINTECH NOV 20, 2009
Nasdaq OMX to offer latency measurement for trade execution

In a move likely to be replicated by most exchanges, the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. announced this week that it will begin providing real-time latency measurement to its customers.

By Davis Janowski
FINTECH NOV 19, 2009
Cabinet NG launches tools to help advisers search and locate files

Cabinet NG, a document management and workflow software maker, this week launched two new tools the company says are intended to expedite searches and better access documents in its filing system <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/PHOTOGALLERY/804931245/1102/INTechnologyNews03&quot;" target="&#8221;_blank&#8221;" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNG-Safe</a> (an acronym for Safe Access Filing Environment)

By Davis Janowski
FINTECH NOV 19, 2009
Advent rolls out new index data service

Advent Software Inc. this week introduced an index data service that allows advisers to download index performance data from Standard &amp; Poor's and Russell Investments directly into Advent Portfolio Exchange, its integrated portfolio and client relationship management system.

By Davis Janowski