The increasing popularity of exchange traded funds has led advisers to seek new ways of incorporating ETFs in client portfolios.
The pursuit of investment performance in an increasingly uncertain market is drawing more attention to alternative investment strategies, a situation that could place more pressure on financial advisers to step outside their traditional comfort zones.
Pink-sheet stocks, which represent thousands of public companies not listed on any U.S. stock exchange, are gaining appeal among some investors, thanks to increased efforts to hold the companies more accountable to shareholders.
In the wake of a security breach that affected more than 10,000 clients, LPL Financial has taken several steps to increase data protection.
In casual conversation about the troubled financial markets, the words "risk" and "uncertainty" often are treated as synonyms.
One of the broker-dealers in the ING Advisors Network Inc. is on the brink of losing representatives and advisers who generate $21 million in fees and commissions to rival firms.
When it comes to helping clients, adviser Daniel Grossman of Acorn Financial LLC in Nashua, N.H., has his feet planted firmly on the ground.
They are the ultimate go-anywhere funds — global funds that can invest virtually anywhere, regardless of geography — and they are growing in number.
Insurance agents who work primarily with equity index annuities say the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to regulate the products as securities would impose greater costs on their firms and hand over control of their production to broker-dealers.
