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.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. is expanding the data its DTCC Deriv/SERV unit generates about credit default swaps.
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.
Charles Schwab has enhanced its StreetSmart Pro trading software and CheckFree Advantage Fee offers a local language feature.
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?
For many advisory practices, the technology focus will be making do with smaller budgets — and doing more with existing technology.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Cabinet NG Inc. a provider of management systems has introduced a hosted product called CNG-ONLINE.
In an open letter released Tuesday, the SEC warned chief executives of registered financial services firms to be vigilant when it comes to keeping their compliance programs in order.
The challenge: Creating a workable and measurable plan when you’re not sure how to start or where you’ll find the time to do the necessary work.
A new service from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. automates the account setup and maintenance of managed accounts — eliminating an onerous and non-standardized manual process.
A new version of the most comprehensive planning software available from Money Tree Software Ltd. was rolled out with new features this week.
This week, we’re going to find out how a Chicago-area adviser combines wine tasting with an art show held at a local gallery.
