In this section we present key findings and insights from our survey questions on practice management and operations, including services offered, the most time-consuming activities, professional designations, custody relationships and documentation trends.
Service continues to maintain its commanding lead as the chief criterion by which RIAs rate custodians and clearing firms, according to a 2010 survey by Cerulli Associates. But depending on the size of the practice, advisor priorities vary. As a...
Wells Fargo Advisors has tentatively agreed to a $32 million settlement of a federal class-action gender discrimination lawsuit brought in 2009 by three women financial advisors who worked at its legacy Wachovia Securities brokerage.
Two years after many of Wall Street’s biggest banks nearly collapsed in the subprime crisis, half or more of individual investors do not trust financial services firms and brokerages, according to a report released Wednesday. And yet...
For many years, Registered Rep. has conducted a research study comparing how advisors at various wirehouses rate their firms. During that time, we have received numerous requests to offer the same opportunity to independent financial advisors. It...
PriceMetrix Chief Executive Doug Trott has a message for fee-based advisors: think about charging more. The Toronto-based practice management and software business says it’s seeing growth among its fee-based clients but that pricing is under...
Advisors who hopscotch across their territories visiting clients now have mobile access to client files and financials on their iPhones (Nasdaq: AAPL) — at least those who custody with Fidelity.
In his tenth edition of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," out this year nearly 40 years after the first edition launched, Malkiel says financial advisors do matter, after all.
