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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 29, 2008
May Week 4: Branding your practice to include retirement

Now it's time to create a communication piece that your can use as part of a program to reinforce your brand.

FINTECH MAY 26, 2008
Transamerica Financial Advisers rolls out paperless system

Independent broker-dealer Transamerica Financial Advisers Inc. is rolling out a soup-to-nuts paperless document management and e-signature system called TFA Synergy, and some advisers who have used it report that it saves time dramatically.

ALTERNATIVES MAY 22, 2008
BlackRock recruits exec

BlackRock Inc. has hired Craig Phillips to head its financial markets advisory group, a unit of BlackRock Solutions.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 19, 2008
May Week 3: Identifying your top-five retirement services

To create a memorable story about your practice and retirement services you must go beyond branding.

FINTECH MAY 16, 2008
Laserfiche, EZ Data and EMSI

The document-management unit of Compulink Management Center has announced the release of Laserfiche 8.

OPINION MAY 15, 2008
Health care is part of wealth care

What would be the financial consequence if one of your clients lost his or her physical and/or mental independence?

FINTECH MAY 12, 2008
RBC continues to struggle with new tech platform

RBC is struggling to get the bugs out of its new technology platform.

FINTECH MAY 12, 2008
SEC chief to unveil data-reporting plan

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 12, 2008
May Week 2: Your retirement branding statement

Capture the assets of retiring baby boomers by branding your practice to highlight your retirement expertise.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 12, 2008
A duty to monitor proxy voting

Upon the conclusion of a talk about achieving fiduciary excellence that I delivered April 28 at the Mountain States Public Employee Retirement Systems Forum in Denver, and sponsored by the Investment Management Network LLC of New York, an attendee approached me and asked, “What are my obligations as an investment committee member with respect to voting proxies?”

FINTECH MAY 12, 2008
Boulevard R offers actionable financial plans

BoulevardR.com, an interactive website that has been used primarily as a tool for retirement planning, is launching a three-step process that provides an actionable financial plan prepared by a financial planner for $49.

FINTECH MAY 09, 2008
Fidelity platform on schedule; Eagle upgrades

A portfolio modeling and rebalancing tool is being built into an upcoming Fidelity WealthCentral Platform.

FINTECH MAY 05, 2008
Implement software carefully

A hypothetical adviser I'll call Jim French was excited to implement new financial planning software his firm had introduced.

LPL offers new custody service
FINTECH MAY 05, 2008
LPL offers new custody service

The largest IDB will allow RIAs to hold fee-based assets with outside custodians; it's also rolling out its own custody platform for RIAs later this year.

FINTECH MAY 05, 2008
Firms rush to go 'paperless,' saving money, time, trees

Most everyone in the financial industry wants to move from paper to electronic documents, but firms that have rolled out systems to do so — and the broker-dealers providing technical assistance — agree that it will take one to three years to recoup the investment of capital in hardware, in software, and in the time needed to train staff and integrate the new systems into firms' work flow.

FINTECH MAY 05, 2008
Backing up is dull to do for advisers

Backing up computer files is a vital but tedious way to protect a financial practice.

FINTECH MAY 02, 2008
E*Assist compliance automation calculator

Brokerage firms can use the tool to determine the extent to which manual tasks can be automated.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 30, 2008
Corporations spend less on Sarbanes-Oxley

The average cost for Section 404 compliance was $1.7 million, according to a Financial Executives International survey.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 28, 2008
April Week 4: Follow-up communications plan

Position your practice at every board meeting and reinforce your board members’ willingness to continue as a resource.

FINTECH APR 21, 2008
XLR8 takes CRM online

Advisers in the market for customer relationship management tools and aware of the popularity of giant Salesforce.com might be interested in examining XLR8 (pronounced "accelerate").