We try to avoid politics in this journal, but this month we couldn't help it. Kristen French, our features editor, ventured downtown to Zuccotti Park and interviewed several protestors for the back page of this issue...
We here at Registered Rep. began creating top financial advisor lists back in 2002 we were the first in the industry to publish such lists, as far as we can tell. To the original list of top wirehouse advisors (by...
Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) has been the very bedrock of investment management and, more specifically, portfolio construction and asset allocation, for decades. To oversimplify, one might explain MPT to clients this...
We're pleased to announce that Registered Rep. is launching its very own Tweetup called Coffee Break under the hash tag: #regreptalks. Tweetups (also called Twitter chats) are online meetings, with virtual attendees...
There is a theme that seems to repeat itself in the broker/dealer industry: quality advisors join shops that, deliberately or not, peddle bad investments and get caught, and those good advisors suffer for it. We've...
As long-time readers know, we've been conducting a financial advisor satisfaction survey how FAs really feel about their firms for 19 years. With the rise of the independent broker/dealer, we thought we'd take the...
Registered Rep.: So you are an Ayn Rand fan, and specifically of her heroic character John Galt. Why? David Loeper: Nearly 20 years ago I read Atlas Shrugged. Objectivism clarified in my mind a moral and noble way to...
The diaspora out of the wirehouses and into IBDs or RIAs is a much-talked about phenomenon. Is it really happening? At a recent Tiburon Strategic Advisors conference in New York, Chip Roame remarked that only one of...
