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YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 28, 2010
Advisers prep antidotes for tax hike

Investor concern over the cost of health care reform is likely to manifest itself in a flood of questions to financial advisers about how best to protect assets from an expected hike in taxes.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 28, 2010
Advisers turn to new tactics for gauging risk

The S&P 500 has gained 48% over the past year, but memories of the market crash are still fresh, forcing many financial advisers to move risk assessment off the back burner and to the center of their playbooks.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 28, 2010
Using print media to bolster your brand

A few months back, I wrote an article for a financial trade publication on search engine optimization.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 26, 2010
IN announces the launch of the 2010 Moss Adams/InvestmentNews financial performance study of advisory firms

The 2010 Moss Adams/InvestmentNews financial performance study of advisory firms officially launched today.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 23, 2010
Pay czar puts $500K cap on cash comp of bank, auto execs

The Obama administration's pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH MAR 22, 2010
More with Fabeetle's Brandon Gadoci

Here's some additional information that was provided by Fabeetle.com founder Brandon Gadoci during the reporting of this week's <a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20100321/FREE/303219969&quot; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>Tech Update</a> that we could not get into the story.

Make sure you reap what you sow
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION MAR 21, 2010
Make sure you reap what you sow

Less than 4% of all independent advisers have ever had their businesses professionally valued, and less than 10% have any formal, written succession plans in place.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 21, 2010
Using LinkedIn to find and attract clients

Many financial advisers begin using LinkedIn without knowing how it will help their practice.

YOUR PRACTICE RIAS MAR 21, 2010
Client trust: It is yours to lose

More than their friends, portfolio managers or corporations, investors trust their brokers or financial advisers, according to the first annual U.S. Financial Services Trust Barometer, sponsored by the Edelman public relations firm.

Looking to calm your clients? Test out a dachshund
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 19, 2010
Looking to calm your clients? Test out a dachshund

It may be unconventional, but this family-owned advisory firm has used Dash, Brooklyn and Trot as &quot;corporate greeters&quot; for the past four years.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 19, 2010
The most expensive cities to run your practice

Thinking of starting your own practice, re-locating, or opening another office? Before you set up shop, here's the rundown on the most expensive cities in the country for office space.

Prospecting for clients? Try beer
YOUR PRACTICE RIAS MAR 19, 2010
Prospecting for clients? Try beer

Investment adviser Richard Feight admits he's not very good at brewing beer, but he's found that the hobby helped him build business connections and network with clients.

YOUR PRACTICE RIAS MAR 18, 2010
Schwab: Advisers' clients are spending less, saving more

In a mixed sign for the U.S. economy, 59% of independent investment advisers surveyed by The Charles Schwab Corp. in late January said they expect consumer savings to increase during the next six months.

YOUR PRACTICE RIAS MAR 17, 2010
On Facebook? So are the feds — and they're watching

Law enforcement officials go undercover to catch fraudsters, scammers and crooks

YOUR PRACTICE RIAS MAR 17, 2010
From our blogs: When wirehouses can't compete, do they just sue?

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney made an attempt to use the legal system as a bludgeon against a team departing to HighTower while Goldman Sachs did the same with a team departing to Credit Suisse.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 17, 2010
Wirehouses have hard time building up broker head count

The big wirehouses face major challenges that could thwart their announced plans to recruit brokers aggressively and hire more trainees, recruiters and analysts say.

YOUR PRACTICE RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 16, 2010
Washington state proposes 'shocking' estate tax changes

The Washington state Legislature has proposed a bill that would double the estate taxes for residents.

Red-faced ASPPA apologizes for e-mail gaffe
YOUR PRACTICE RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 15, 2010
Red-faced ASPPA apologizes for e-mail gaffe

The pension and actuary group sends a mea culpa to members after a financial advisory firm got hold of the association's mailing list for an upcoming conference.

YOUR PRACTICE RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 14, 2010
Boomers' retirement offers opportunities, challenges

In four years, more than 4 million baby boomers annually will reach the normal retirement age for full Social Security benefits.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 14, 2010
CFP Board hikes requirement for certification exam

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. is raising the education requirements for planners and financial advisers who seek to take the group's certification examination.