Financial stocks have understandably led the market down during the recent credit-related correction. But the group has also recently led in another area: insider buying. In July and August, executives and directors in this much-beleaguered sector...
Millions of investors have piled into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over the past decade. Assets in the funds have grown from $65 billion in 2000 to $488 billion today, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund trade group...
Joni Elliot decided that her career came first When vacationing with her boss Scott Magnesen's wife 12 years ago in Desert Springs, Calif., she met her husband-to-be. After a year of long-distance dating, she told him their marriage would be...
IT'S TOO EASY when focusing on what's happening today and tomorrow to overlook what may happen years from now. After all, especially in our business, who can predict tomorrow? But you don't need a crystal ball to predict that more of your clients...
Think for a moment about your affluent clients and their centers-of-influence. As you scroll through these images in the theater of your mind, try to assess your marketplace equity. If is your initial response to this term, you are not alone. But...
Last year, Robert Isbitts, who runs Weston, Fla.-based RIA Emerald Asset Advisors, decided he had to take drastic action. Legal and regulatory compliance issues were spreading his employees thin. Everyone at the firm was responsible for his or her...
Q: Where do you draw the line between what is best for your clients' money, and what is best for your clients in the long run? My manager gets upset with me sometimes when I steer a client away from a 529 that I can manage, to the state 529 plan...
Trader Jett Asked to Pay Up, Again Joe Jett, the young bond trader at Kidder Peabody, who was the central figure in one of Wall Street's most high-profile trading scandals, has been told to pay up to the tune of $8.4 million. Jett, who now runs...
Don't call Mark Beloyan a penny stock tout. Sure, Beloyan speculates in low-priced securities. And, yes, his book is built around trading and finding retail investors who want to make a bet on the shares of companies that are more or less still in...
Those darn SAT scores will always come back to haunt you especially if you're a hedge fund manager. At least according to the findings of a recent study titled Investing in Talents: Manager Characteristics and Hedge Fund Performances. The...
