Benjamin “Tad” Edwards IV, the great-great-grandson of Albert Gallatin “A.G.” Edwards, took another step toward expanding his own brokerage business with the launch of a branch in White Plains, N.Y. — one that will house a number of former A.G. Edwards Inc. advisers and employees.
The Financial Planning Association is expected today to unveil a major research study on customer relationship management. ActiFi Inc., a financial services technology consulting firm, partnered with FPA in completing the 85 page comparative analysis of CRM packages available to the advisory market.
Financial advisers, pressed for time, increasingly are turning to podcasts to help them keep abreast of regulatory issues, management best practices and marketing trends.
Women who have recently lost a spouse may confront many changes in their daily lives and need financial support and advice.
During the worst of the market meltdown, surveys showed that three-quarters of high-net-worth investors were ready to jump ship and find a new adviser.
BrightScope Inc., a provider of 401(k) plan ratings, last week introduced an online tool that provides investors and financial advisers with personalized data about how much they are paying in fees in retirement plans.
Financial advisers are warning their clients to donate only to well-known organizations if they want to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
St. Louis-based brokerage firm says it is reaping the benefits from the national trend of financial advisers exiting bigger brokerages and bringing their clients with them
The key tonic to the past 10 years was a more diversified, less equity-centric approach.
After watching the fall of GunnAllen Financial Inc. become official this morning, the firm's founders —Donald James “Jay” Gunn and Richard Allen Frueh —are apparently moving to a rival broker-dealer.
Version 2.2 of the popular financial-planning software was introduced in November. The application has several new features, including an internal Roth IRA conversion feature as well as a stand-alone Roth IRA conversion calculator that can be used by financial advisers who need to create financial plans for clients and prospects.
Fidelity Investments introduced a free online Roth IRA conversion calculator last month to both its independent registered investment advisers and the broker-dealer clients that clear through National Financial Services LLC.
Earlier in the year I asked a regular source of mine, H. Jude Boudreaux, director of financial planning at Bellingrath Wealth Management, to “test drive” four different free calculators available on the Internet.
Technology providers and product companies have been rolling out Roth IRA conversion calculators in a bid to meet the expected needs of advisers and their clients ahead of some significant changes in conversion rules for next year.
Advisers typically are encountered by wholesalers from fund companies on an almost daily basis.
A year after Wall Street failures plunged the nation into recession, the House on Friday passed the most ambitious restructuring of financial regulation since the New Deal.
RBC Wealth Management has recruited a pair of financial advisers from US Trust Wealth Management, where they ran some $450 million in client assets.
Two senior financial advisers from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney have left RBC Wealth Management.
