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More often than not, personal likability and trustworthiness rate much higher than professional knowledge alone.

Stock picking = monkey business? | Copyright Keystone, Getty Images Forget picking stocks and stick to passive, index-based funds, says Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel on ETFFunds.com. “A blindfolded monkey could select a portf...

As we enter 2015, the S&P 500 is likely to be up over the last year (up 10 percent as of Dec. 11, 2014). Accordingly, affluent investors are more optimistic about their family’s financial situation despite concerns about taxes, health...

Registered investment advisor firms spend, on average, 2 percent of their total revenue on marketing and business development, excluding the cost of a marketing staff if they have one, according to the 2014 Fidelity RIA Benchmarking Study. And...

I was thumbing through my mobile LinkedIn newsfeed the other day and noticed something that caused me to both laugh and wince at the same time (and grab a screenshot of course). In the example below, Michael changed his LinkedIn profile to refle...

There is no retirement crisis in America, writes Ramesh Ponnuru, for Bloomberg View. Instead, it's all a matter of how you decide to interpret the data. While the National Institute on Retirement Security's recent report stated that 84 percent ...

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, as they say, and UBS is looking for new ways to use its collection of customer data to compete with new tech-based asset allocation firms coming from Silicon Valley companies. UBS awarded $30,000 and a potential...

Fidelity’s custody and clearing unit is teaming up with online advice platform LearnVest to help advisors “digitize their practices.” Advisors and their clients will have access to LearnVest's financial wellness microsite and preferred pricing ...

The Oechsli Institute’s 2014 Financial Advisor Social Media research found that LinkedIn is a powerful marketing tool when a personal introduction isn’t possible. The following is an excerpt from The Indispensable LinkedIn Sales Guide for Financ...