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ALTERNATIVES FEB 10, 2009
Hedge fund regulation: Resistance is futile

When it comes to regulatory oversight of the hedge funds industry, it is no longer a question of if it will happen but when, according to industry representatives speaking today at a conference in Key Biscayne, Fla.

FINTECH FEB 06, 2009
National Securities; Integre Advisors

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 04, 2009
New Jersey bars three brokers

Three former brokers, who were first with UBS Financial Services Inc. and then with Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., have been barred from working in New Jersey.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 02, 2009
January Week 4: Promoting your practice with rollover seminars

In this final week of a four-week program to get your business off to a solid start by focusing on retirement rollovers, let’s discuss effective retirement rollover seminars and how to do them on a limited budget.

FINTECH JAN 30, 2009
T. Rowe brings fund tools to the Internet

T. Rowe Price has unveiled a web portal with tools that advisers and other firms can use to evaluate the asset manager’s mutual funds.

FINTECH JAN 23, 2009
Gemini inks deal with ReFlow

Gemini Fund Services will offer ReFlow Management’s redemption service to small and midsize mutual funds. The service will be integrated into Gemini’s transfer agency services, providing clients with direct access to the service.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 19, 2009
January Week 3: Identifying your top five retirement services

Start by identifying your top five retirement services. These may include IRAs, Keogh plans, long term care insurance, retirement income reviews, referrals to estate planning attorneys, annuities and others.

FINTECH JAN 16, 2009
DTCC to expand data coverage

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. is expanding the data its DTCC Deriv/SERV unit generates about credit default swaps.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 12, 2009
January Week 2: Position your practice as a retirement resource

It’s not easy to call and meet clients in light of the markets and the negative press from the Madoff scandal. But with clients receiving their December statements, this is no time to hide.

FINTECH JAN 09, 2009
Schwab updates; CheckFree goes multilingual

Charles Schwab has enhanced its StreetSmart Pro trading software and CheckFree Advantage Fee offers a local language feature.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 05, 2009
January Week 1: Why focusing on retirement makes sense

What do you say to clients when their recent investment experiences have been traumatic and the outlook is uncertain, at best, and frightening at worst?

FINTECH JAN 04, 2009
TRIMMER BUDGETS MEAN FEWER BUCKS FOR TECH

For many advisory practices, the technology focus will be making do with smaller budgets — and doing more with existing technology.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 22, 2008
December Week 4: Building your activities for January

As December winds down, now is the perfect time to reflect on what you might have done differently in your practice since the financial world began unraveling earlier this year.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 21, 2008
Reviving practice valuations

Because the value of most advisory practices is tied in varying degrees to cash flow, revenue and assets advised, most firms are probably worth less today than they were at their peak a year ago.

FINTECH DEC 19, 2008
Yahoo launches center for currency investors

New features include rates tables with flat rates and cross rates of most-traded currencies and currency pairs, a global economic calendar that lists major economic events that affect currencies and allows filtering by country.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 15, 2008
December Week 3: Identifying and integrating life goals

Your business is critical, but it’s not the entirety of your life. What’s important to you? What do you want to accomplish? Since you can’t do everything, what are things would you most like to do?

FINTECH DEC 12, 2008
Technology forum launched for indies

Several third-party technology providers have banded together and this week launched a new forum to help educate and assist newly independent advisers in their selection of software, hardware and other technology components to complete their back offices.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 08, 2008
December Week 2: Outlining your 2009 goals

Our goals are twofold: to help you retain your top clients — who are receiving their shrunken December statements, as well as phone calls from other advisers going after disgruntled clients — and to help you outline your plan for what is likely to be a tough year.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 08, 2008
EMMA to provide one-stop shopping for bond info

The SEC has designated the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s electronic municipal market access system — or EMMA — as the sole repository in which issuers must file necessary disclosures.

FINTECH DEC 05, 2008
Cabinet NG, Mint.com

Cabinet NG Inc. a provider of management systems has introduced a hosted product called CNG-ONLINE.