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Cogent Reports, a division of Market Strategies International, asked 1,390 registered financial advisors to select which mutual fund companies they trust out of a list of 48. The study found that "trust" in an asset manager had the greatest i...
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Robo-advisors are driving down the fees clients pay for asset management, but what if even 25 basis points is too much? What if clients should not be paying anything at all for it? Will Ortel at E...
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Practice management coaches will often tell you what you should be doing to attract clients. But what turns clients off? Writing on The Motley Fool, Todd Campbell says there are five things that should have prospe...
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Predicting calamity for the financial markets is a regular sport. Some even manage to turn doomsaying into a profitable gig selling newsletters, gold vaults and investment strate...
This week’s episode of HBO’s Ballers highlights the dark side of fame—the inevitable shakedowns. And as the show points out, the most dangerous ones are rarely straightforward, so it’s helpful to have a team of...
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A 99-year-old financial advisor and holocaust survivor will be the oldest person to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange in honor of her 100th birthday Aug. 2. As a teen, Irene Bergman ...
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A Waco, Texas, financial advisor has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $9 million in restitution for running a Ponzi-type fraud scheme. Charles D. Jon...
It's better to give than receive.
Investors have been in a giving mood lately. Grants from Fidelity Charitable and Schwab Charitable donor-advised funds are at record levels, the two firms said Wednesday. Schwab Charitable said its donors ...
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The Treasury Department will stop allowing employers to offer some retired employees lump sum buyouts of their defined pension benefits. Traditional pensions are designed to give retirees income for...
