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NAPFA, a trade organization for fee-only advisors, hopes to become the recognized leader in support and business development to the financial planning profession by 2020, and the organization has launched a new branding campaign to reflect that...
Despite Congress’ eleventh-hour move in December to head off sharply higher estate taxes, confusion remains over the future of the levies. The tax revisions lawmakers made at the end of last year set a maximum rate of 35 percent with a $5...
Even though the market has been rallying for more than two years, clients remain wary. Many still are clinging to big cash stakes. To calm nerves and ease clients back into stocks, consider using equity funds that rank among the most conservative...
Multi-family offices have a tantalizing window of opportunity to meet a surge of demand by wealthy families looking for a primary provider of investment, planning and administrative services, according to Jamie McLaughlin, a veteran industry...
Larry Swedroe calls it the Holy Grail—the search for managers who can deliver returns that beat the appropriate risk-adjusted benchmarks. And it’s “a fool’s errand,” he adds; he spends much of his new book, The Quest for Alpha (John Wiley & Sons)...
Financial advisors should focus extra attention on their 50 best clients to achieve growth and build their “ideal” practice, said Nancy Petrucelli, a coach who has worked with wirehouse advisors for the past 20 years and has the...
Advisors are often recruited to broker/dealers based on promises that the firm later fails to deliver on, according to a recent Registered Rep. reader poll...
Forget what you hear about gold and silver being rare commodities. Far more precious than metals is that holy grail of money management -- alpha. The cost of acquiring market outperformance -- or, more properly, the cost of acquiring the...