J.P. Morgan Funds is rolling out an online version of its target date evaluation program for advisers. The firm also is discussing developing a similar tool to help advisers analyze target risk funds.
Microsoft Corp. today officially launched its Windows 7 operating system to the masses.
Advisers interested in the technology behind ultra-high-speed trading should take a look at a newly published white paper from exchange technology provider Cinnober.
In what could be a bit of a make-good to investors after missing some massive fraud cases in the last year, <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20090913/REG/309139986&ht=SEC " target=”_blank”> —namely Bernie Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme — </a>, the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched its first-ever website devoted exclusively to helping educate investors.
Fears abound about the potential for change in the regulatory and compliance arena.
Over the past year, we have heard from advisers that the economy has not only hit clients hard; it has also affected their children who have recently graduated from college.
As a financial adviser, you likely can reflect back to late August 2008 and recall the angst that a falling stock market brought about every day.
Opening or moving a financial services practice provides advisers with an excellent marketing opportunity — if they are ready to make the most of it.
The mountain of paper advisers create when they sell an insurance policy or annuity contract is about to shrink.
ProTracker Software Inc. has released an update to its Advantage <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080415/REG/147477097/1102/INTechnologyNews03"" target="”_blank”" rel="noopener noreferrer">customer relationship management</a> application. It also introduced Version 5 of its Compliance Manual product.
Conseco Inc. said Friday that a subsidiary has reached a reinsurance agreement with Wilton Reassurance Co. covering about 237,000 life insurance policies.
At a recent workshop, advisers told me they are finding that a surprisingly high percentage of their clients are unemployed. Advisers found this out during client reviews, and they said the news surprised them — clients had never called to let them know about their new circumstances.
The downturn of the past year has had a profound effect on how financial advisers are managing client behavior and expectations.
Enhanced application and data integration available with second version of Albridge AppLink Albridge Solutions has announced the availability of version 2.0 of its AppLink technology, which is intended for use by its broker-dealer clients and their 100,000 financial advisers.
The number of financial advisers fleeing large brokerages appears to be slowing, as many wirehouse reps are staying put — for now — or joining another wirehouse.
Although financial advisers think that succession planning is important, many also believe that they aren't getting enough help preparing for that transition, according to a new survey conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates Inc. for John Hancock Financial Network.
American Express Co. said Monday its president, Alfred F. Kelly Jr., will step down early next year.
Karen Ogard, a 26-year industry veteran, last week left Wells Fargo Advisors LLC, where she was in the brokerage's Greenwood Village, Colo., office, and joined Robert W. Baird & Co.
Bank of America Corp. said Friday it created a six-member committee of directors to find a successor for CEO Ken Lewis.
Sometimes I wonder how our corporations lead the world. Seriously, are foreign companies even worse at customer service than ours?
