Hoping to steal the thunder from archrival Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.'s annual gathering of advisers this week, Fidelity Investments last week unveiled plans to spend $50 million to develop a wealth management technology platform aimed at advisers.
Exchange traded funds are becoming a must-have for individual investors, but few of them know exactly what they are, how they work or what makes them different from their mutual fund cousins, advisers observed.
It would seem that after the latest sell-off, financial services stocks would be a screaming "buy" for most investors.
Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc.'s acquisition last week of Investacorp Inc., could position the latter to be more active in recruiting representatives and financial advisers, as well as potentially buying smaller firms.
After 11 years as an emergency room physician, Carolyn McClanahan saw her career change course.
Members of the Financial Services Institute Inc. met with members of Congress and their staffs on Capitol Hill Oct. 10, in a push to retain in their current form 12(b)-1 fees, which the advisers say are crucial to their work with smaller clients.
Quantitative investment strategies that maintain consistent long and short exposures, commonly known as 130/30s, are hot.
Just 23% of women in a recently released survey said that they were confident in their ability to retire with a lifestyle that they considered comfortable.
When the Federal Reserve Board cut the discount and federal funds rates by 0.5 percentage points Sept. 18, some critics charged that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues had acted too quickly.
More mutual funds are being developed that offer managed payouts designed to give investors a steady stream of income.
