Now is the time to identify client events and seminars for the year. Many advisers have told me they have fewer administrative staff members and lower budgets than in the past and are looking for new ideas for client events and seminars.
Over the weekend, my daughter asked me what our family was going to do to help Haiti.
We are a few weeks into 2010 and you may be wondering what you can do to rejuvenate your practice and spice things up
With the new year comes a surge of resolutions, many of which won't be kept. I recently read that 88% of all resolutions are broken. Why? No matter how well-intentioned, they fail because there is no continuing plan with specific action steps to follow.
The state of Illinois has reached a settlement in its lawsuit over losses in the Bright Start college savings program under which parents will get back $77.23 million — slightly more than half of what they lost in investments handled by Oppenheimer Funds Inc.
Carmelo Anthony's lawsuit that accused his former business manager of misappropriating more than $2 million of his assets has been provisionally dismissed by a federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., so the NBA star's lawyers can amend the complaint.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Gary R. Headding and his former registered investment adviser firm, Envision Direct of Newport Beach, Calif., for defrauding two clients of at least $274,256.
For the first time in Villere & Co.'s 99-year history, advisers will not be required to wear suits to the office Friday. Instead, reps and other workers from the New Orleans firm will don Saints jerseys in support of their hometown team's Super Bowl appearance Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
Apple Inc. today unveiled its long-rumored tablet, the iPad. Chief executive Steve Jobs, addressing a packed crowd of technology journalists and bloggers. referred to the device as something in the “middle” — residing in a “third category,” between high-powered personal computers and smart phones.
For months, a task force for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has been reviewing some of the major issues surrounding the professional use of social media in the financial services community – and now the self-regulatory organization has finally issued an overview of their guidelines.
A sports car worth nearly $2 million, an 87-foot yacht and a guitar collection worth as much as $20,000 were among the assets seized from a South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme, according to a court filing Monday.
Advisers have the opportunity, until Nov. 20, to make their voices heard on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s broad proposal to change how it regulates financial advisory firms' communications with the public — a proposal that could address advisers' use of social media.
Why Dan Charles, executive vice president and managing director of Janus Capital Inc.'s U.S. institutional business and head of Janus Capital Group International, has departed remains unclear
Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. has hired former hockey star Blake Dunlop to run its newly opened St. Louis branch.
Recent studies have shown clients are considering moving assets or changing advisors. This month, we've been focused on rejuvenating your office and practice without breaking the bank
No doubt about it, social networking is one hot topic right now. Financial advisers, though, have been relatively slow to embrace sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
WealthTouch Inc., which offers a consolidated investment-reporting platform on the web for the wealth management industry, today announced that it has raised $11 million in private money to allow it to expand in Europe.
