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RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 05, 2011
Envestnet to provide money management platform for SSG

Envestnet Asset Management Inc. has signed an agreement to provide a money management platform for Shareholders Service Group Inc., a San Diego-based custodial firm that serves 700 advisers.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch still on hiring roll
RIAS AUG 04, 2011
Bank of America Merrill Lynch still on hiring roll

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has brought on six new financial advisers in Texas, Pennsylvania and California.

Advisers on the Move: The top 10 gainers (assets)
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 01, 2011
Advisers on the Move: The top 10 gainers (assets)

The following is a list of the ten firms that attracted financial advisers with the most assets during the 12-month period ending March 31, 2011, according to data recorded in the InvestmentNews <a href=InvestmentNews <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/section/recruiting-moves>Advisers on the Move</a> database. During that time, InvestmentNews tracked 544 financial advisers that have changed firms, with more than $76 billion in client assets at the time of their departure.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 29, 2011
Identifying elder financial fraud

Advisers can be guardians of their elderly clients' best interests, shielding them from financial fraud in ways that even family members can't

SEC makes it official: Adviser switch delayed until March 30
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 28, 2011
SEC makes it official: Adviser switch delayed until March 30

Investment advisers who must migrate from regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission to state oversight now will have extra time to make the transition.

FINTECH JUL 27, 2011
Raymond James to launch annuity matchmaking tool

New software tool will help advisers scan for the best variable annuity option for a client.

Finra's Ketchum: Questions still surrounding social media
FINTECH JUL 25, 2011
Finra's Ketchum: Questions still surrounding social media

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 25, 2011
LPL latest to deploy social-media archiving system

Independent broker-dealer selects Erado's API-based archiving, tracking and post-review tool

FINTECH JUL 24, 2011
Getting a handle on adviser technology

Who uses which technology products and are they satisfied? Where is adviser technology going?

FINTECH JUL 24, 2011
People are key to making technology work

Respondents to the recent <i>InvestmentNews</i> RIA Technology Study overwhelmingly (95%) rated technology as either &#8220;critical&#8221; or &#8220;absolutely critical&#8221; to the success of their business

FINTECH JUL 22, 2011
MSSB data breach is a lesson for advisers

The recent data breach involving Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC should serve as a warning to financial advisers that important steps need to be taken to improve the security of sensitive client information stored on CD-ROMs

Fidelity adds trading to WealthCentral Mobile
FINTECH JUL 22, 2011
Fidelity adds trading to WealthCentral Mobile

Advisers can conduct transactions over iPhones and Android smart phones

Merrill Lynch grabs UBS team of $2.5M producers
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 19, 2011
Merrill Lynch grabs UBS team of $2.5M producers

A four-man team of financial advisers from UBS Financial Services Inc. managing $277 million in assets with trailing-12-month production of $2.5 million has joined the Palm Beach complex of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

FINTECH JUL 18, 2011
Custodians putting all the technology pieces together

While both custodians bristle at any suggestion of a race, Schwab Institutional and TD Ameritrade Institutional are charging ahead in their efforts to deliver a unified technology platform to their registered investment adviser clients.

FINTECH JUL 17, 2011
HNW to advisers: Pick up an iPad already

Wealthy investors love their iPads and want their financial advisers to use them too, according to a recent study by Cisco Systems Inc.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 17, 2011
Channeling finance

Need a way to explain Ponzi schemes?

FINTECH JUL 15, 2011
Advisers, speak directly to the advisory tech industry: Take this easy, multiple-choice, five-minute survey

Hi folks, Davis Janowski, technology reporter with InvestmentNews here. We have created a short, simple survey for advisers in order to determine how many of you use which products and vendors and gauge your level of satisfaction with them. This will not only help me with my stories and columns but give you, the advisers, a sense of the popularity and market share they have.

C'mon Irene: Advisers say they're ready for hurricane
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 13, 2011
C'mon Irene: Advisers say they're ready for hurricane

While much of the East Coast battens down the hatches ahead of Hurricane Irene, advisers in the path of the storm say they're not overly concerned about what the nasty weather will do to their operations. One piece of advice: buy a generator.

FINTECH JUL 13, 2011
Retirement planner reaches for the cloud

NFL star sues 'long-term friend' for investment in airplane hangars
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 12, 2011
NFL star sues 'long-term friend' for investment in airplane hangars

Alex Brown, a defensive end with the New Orleans Saints, is suing his former team of financial advisers, alleging that they &#8220;abused the trust&#8221; of the player and his wife.