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No, not that kind of planning! A move to family financial planning has me working less and making more.

NASD's rules about reporting complaints are anything but clear. Here's some help in deciphering them.

Pru brokers won't be allowed to jump as freely between Wachovica's channels as some originally thought.

Phoenix says categorizing HNW individuals helps advisors improve service.

10. My advisor made perfect recommendations which I completely ignored in favor of buying nothing but beer stocks. 9. My advisor held a client appreciation dinner at a restaurant with a decidedly inferior wine list. 8. He told me not to worry...

 

Firms stanch spending on new initiatives--and reps feel it.

Contests to push "preferred" products may be passe, but old habits--even those that hurt clients--die hard.

Whether it's a money market fund or a long-term bond portfolio, one of the first things many investors professionals and novices alike want to know about a bond fund is its yield. Many view a fund's yield as an approximation of the income a fund...

How useful are analysts' recommendations? The argument has been raging for years. There have been numerous academic studies and even actual matches between and real-life stock pickers remember the Wall Street Journal's dartboard contest, in which...