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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 01, 2010
Incite: No news is bad news for women at brokerages

If you're curious about how important workplace diversity is to Wall Street, consider the commotion that ensues when it's time to roll out the red carpet and honor the industry's inclusion luminaries.

RIAS DEC 01, 2010
Reps looking to bail on besieged B-D: Recruiter

Representatives and advisers at Brewer Financial, a Chicago-based independent broker-dealer, are said to be looking to jump ship after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the firm and its top two executives with fraud in selling $5.6 million in promissory notes to 74 investors.

FINTECH NOV 30, 2010
Advisers optimistic about technology's direction

Without a doubt, 2010 is a far better time to start an advisory business than at any point in the last 30 years, according to the participants in <i>InvestmentNews'</i> technology round table

FINTECH NOV 30, 2010
Technology must continue to evolve

The following is an edited transcript of <i>InvestmentNews' </i>technoogy round table, held in New York Sept. 15

Northern Trust launches gay, lesbian wealth management biz
RIAS NOV 29, 2010
Northern Trust launches gay, lesbian wealth management biz

Northern Trust Corp. long has championed its conservative heritage as a 121-year-old financial institution that eased through the Great Depression and most recently the Great Recession.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 29, 2010
Reinvigorate end-of-year client reviews

Many financial professionals see client reviews solely as a time to discuss portfolio performance

FINTECH NOV 23, 2010
eFileCabinet rolls out latest version of SecureDrawer

RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 21, 2010
New credential focuses on families with special needs children

RIAS NOV 21, 2010
Advisers give thanks to clients, not Washington

Financial advisers are a grateful tribe, and one thing they all agree on as the nation counts down to Thanksgiving is that clients rank high on their list of blessings.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 17, 2010
American Funds biggest loser in 2010 outflows

Offerings from American Funds, Fidelity Investments and The Vanguard Group Inc. had the biggest net outflows last year, according to Morningstar Inc.

FINTECH NOV 17, 2010
Tech under the tree: Apricorn Aegis Padlock secure portable hard drive

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 17, 2010
Incite: Don't put off succession planning

It might be easier not to think ahead, but it isn't fair to leave clients high and dry

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 17, 2010
Merrill Lynch defeats bid by black financial advisers to sue as group

Merrill Lynch &amp; Co., the Bank of America Corp. securities brokerage unit, won a U.S. judge's ruling denying a bid by 17 black financial advisers for group status in their five-year-old discrimination case.

Security snafu has advisers up in arms
FINTECH NOV 17, 2010
Security snafu has advisers up in arms

Advisers who were impacted when the Massachusetts Securities Division sent out their confidential info to an industry media outlet are now voicing their furor.

Data theft puts LPL clients at risk
FINTECH NOV 17, 2010
Data theft puts LPL clients at risk

LPL Financial yet again has fallen prey to a technology blunder that placed private client information at risk.

Things getting ugly between Buffett and the man who would be Buffett
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 16, 2010
Things getting ugly between Buffett and the man who would be Buffett

The war of words between Berkshire Hathaway and David Sokol is hotting up. This week, Berkshire Hathaway's audit committee said the company should consider suing Sokol -- once considered the likely successor to Warren Buffett -- for purportedly violating Berkshire's insider trading policy. Sokol's lawyer doesn't see it that way.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 16, 2010
Investment industry jobs make a comeback

Hiring in the asset management business rebounded in 2010 after two sluggish years, but active-domestic-equity managers are on the outs, according to a recent report by executive recruiting firm Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 15, 2010
Wall Street edging back to hiring mode

Signs are emerging that Wall Street is looking to staff up after a long, painful purge.

RIAS NOV 15, 2010
More advisers try hand at running mutual funds

But the road to riches is paved with lots of obstacles, experts say

Asset managers' pay: Smaller bonuses, bigger salaries — and more deferred comp
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 14, 2010
Asset managers' pay: Smaller bonuses, bigger salaries — and more deferred comp

Compensation packages rejiggered, but investment pros still pulling down more money; 'doing better than expected'