Advisers thinking about treating themselves this holiday season to new office PCs running Microsoft Vista should think twice: Only a tiny fraction of an adviser's core professional software is likely to be Microsoft Vista-compatible.
NorthStar Systems has rolled out a wealth management platform that includes a suite of services building on the company's many individual offerings.
When wooing Bancroft family heirs to sell him their controlling interest in New York-based Dow Jones & Co. Inc., K. Rupert Murdoch learned that money isn't everything.
Advisers have a new, largely undiscovered and relatively inexpensive online database for prospecting for wealthy clients or for researching the giving habits of those they already have.
As Securities America Inc. deals with the sting of losing one of its biggest advisers, the independent broker-dealer continues to tighten its compliance practices and procedures.
The technology-solutions provider has completed its $4.4 billion cash acquisition of CheckFree.
While spending on technology in the financial-services sector won't reach double-digit growth next year, it's likely to outpace growth in spending by many other big sector groups.
When computers manage the portfolio, the first challenge is often preventing the human brain from getting in the way.
Standard & Poor's MarketScope Advisor is a beautifully designed, intuitive online application that is meant to serve as a financial adviser's central source of real-time stock analysis, equity research, strategic asset allocation guidance and market commentary.
Charts displaying stock market activity or detailed stock analysis are common on investment or brokerage websites — an embedded music player would seem out of place.
Race and gender diversity at financial firms has improved but has remained static for the past two years, a SIFMA report showed.
A "nightmare" is how Shami Kaur, an adviser and certified financial planner with SK Financial Alliance in Cedar Knolls, N.J., describes dealing with cost basis issues and their tax ramifications.
While The PNC Financial Services Group's announcement last week that it is set to acquire Albridge Solutions Inc. was applauded by many in the financial advisory industry, some raised concerns that the planned merger might prove less than a panacea.
In about a decade, when a significant number of baby boomers have retired, there will be a new market for financial advice.
Financial advisers who attended the annual Schwab IMPACT conference last week in Las Vegas had a chance to preview an updated version of PortfolioCenter.
A unified managed account platform that gives advisers greater latitude in customizing portfolios for clients is being introduced today by ADVISORport, the UMA platform service of Wilmington, Del.-based PFPC Worldwide Inc.
The Albridge platform provides advisers with an aggregate view of their clients’ assets.
Nick Leeson, the rogue derivatives trader whose fraudulent transactions brought down London's venerable Barings Bank, has a new gig.
