LPL Investment Holdings stands to take advantage of growth in the independent retail brokerage sector in the next three to five years, as the only publicly-traded company in this sphere, wrote Brad Hintz, senior analyst at BernsteinResearch, in a...
Have you thought seriously about when and how you're going to retire? And who'll take over the practice? You haven't? Well, you're in good company. A quarter of firm owners lack an exit plan, according to a 2009 survey by Rydex/SGI's...
Concerns about using mobile devices in financial planning are heard throughout the field. Nonetheless, reps have taken to handhelds and tablets as quickly as they’ve appeared on the market, particularly the iPad, whose adoption by reps is...
Focusing on clients and growth is the natural instinct of our industry. Still, before we turn the page to a new year, we all have to make sure that we have brought to conclusion all the open items from this one.
