The Roth IRA turns 10 years old in 2008, and chances are that some of your clients are among the 17 million Roth IRA owners who would happily celebrate if a birthday party of sorts were thrown. But you probably have an equal number of clients who...
Long a Favorite of Investors in Europe, structured products are rapidly gaining popularity in the United States. Last year, $114 billion in structured products were issued in the U.S., according to the Structured Products Association. That's a 78...
Kuwait. Singapore. Russia. China. The government investment funds of these countries, and several others, may have saved our financial system from severe shock. Following over $100 billion in write-downs at the country's biggest banks due to bad...
The SEC voted in February to propose changes to the structure of the Form ADV, the disclosure document that all investment advisors must complete. Instead of the current online check-the-box format, investment advisors would be required to create...
One more time: Retail investors your clients are confused about the definition of a financial advisor. That is, they don't understand the difference between a Series 7 registered representative and a Series 65 investment advisor representative...
As we were going to press with the March 2008 issue of
Trusts & Estates magazine, we received an email from Kevin Matz of
White & Case, LLP, who has a piece in that issue entitled "Knight's
Decided.
Seems whenever you turn around, another triple–bottom–line company is launched. Unfamiliar with the lingo? "Triple bottom line" is a for-profit business that not only seeks a financial return, but also a social and environmental one. Among the...
Kevin Matras shows you a great new screen that blew away last year's market and is set to do it again this year. See how, and get three stock picks from this new screen.
