Financial advisory firms that are mulling the idea of revamping their company websites can learn some useful lessons from others.
Financial advisers and clients can be their own worst enemies when drafting plans for retirement income, making common — but crucial — errors that can ruin distribution plans, according to an influential academic.
A new search service is available for comparative and cross-archive regulatory research.
Portfolio Director Inc. has announced completion of version 8.1 of its eponymous investment management software product.
After months of insisting that no further delays for smaller public companies would be forthcoming, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said in December that he would recommend still another delay in implementing Section 404(b) for companies with market caps under $75 million ("non-accelerated filers") until fiscal years ending on or after Dec. 15, 2009.
Succession planning always creates complications.
Despite the challenges faced by today's physicians — the soaring cost of malpractice insurance and declining insurance reimbursements are just two — doctors remain one of financial advisers' most sought-after niches
The acronym RIA refers, of course, to registered investment advisers.
Advisers are generally satisfied with the dozen-plus retirement-planning software applications and calculators available to them.
RBC Dain Rauscher last week rolled out a new name and a new technology platform.
The following is an edited transcript of the round-table discussion.
Competition is heating up in the normally sedate world of portfolio-re-balancing software.
The firm's version 5.2 of its eMoney Advisor 360Pro suite of online financial planning tools will launch this month.
Problems come and problems go, but linking adviser tools so that data entered once can populate several software programs — that's a problem that seems eternal.
Dan Skiles, vice president of Technology for Schwab Institutional, discussed the many issues his team has confronted.
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Competition is heating up in the normally sedate world of portfolio re-balancing software.
Top management at H&R Block Inc., parent of H&R Block Financial Advisors Inc., allegedly turned up the heat and threatened a senior executive in the middle of an acrimonious dispute over compensation, according to an arbitration complaint that led to a $4 million award to the executive last month.
Citadel Solutions starting Operational Alpha, the first fully integrated hedge fund trading platform for users of Bloomberg’s AIM institutional order management system.
