PowerShares QQQ (QQQ) has been racing ahead. During the past five years ending March, the ETF has returned 7 percent annually, outdoing the average large growth mutual fund by 4 percentage points, according to Morningstar. Investors have taken...
Another wave of financial advisor defections could be just around the corner, says an Aite Group report. Switching for big signing bonuses spiked during the recent financial crisis when Wall Street’s biggest brokerages merged or were...
Financial advisory firms are gearing up to do more hiring in the months to come, according to a recent Fidelity Investments survey. But adding staff this year may be trickier than just posting ads and waiting for the resumes to pour in. Two...
Due diligence has come a long way since the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Indeed, back then, the due diligence process of one Southeast broker/dealer consisted of looking at what products other big b/ds were putting on their platforms and simply...
Independent broker/dealer Harrison Douglas Inc. has filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission to terminate its registrations and close the firm, after it was “unable to pay an adverse...
Advisors are expecting the summer doldrums to kick in for the stock market and the economy over the next few months, according to Rydex|SGI’s Advisor Confidence Index. The index, which surveys 150 RIAs on their views of the U.S. economy and...
With the breakaway broker debate raging, and smaller independent b/ds imploding all over the place, we launched our first Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card survey.
The last decade has seen both the tech wreck and the housing bubble burst, leaving greater skepticism about financial institutions and a deeper interest in identifying “bubbles” amongst both the professional and investing public...
