For every fast-food television commercial featuring a supermodel eating a cheeseburger, on the back-end of that production is an army of analysts pouring over data. That’s because every bit as important as the actual creation of the...

In the last of a three-part series, Dr. Daniel Crosby examines why simplicity impacts the quality of the investment experience.

Under the RIA hybrid model, a financial advisor is affiliated with a broker-dealer for their commissionable business and conducts fee-based business through an outside RIA. Maintaining a broker-dealer affiliation allows advisors to provide clients...

Good portfolio management is still the biggest reason clients stick with their financial advisor, even among the wealthiest investors. In a survey of 3,025 global investors with an average of $2.9 million in assets, 17 percent of wealthy investo...

Over the last few months the FINRA recruitment/broker disclosure discussion, and documents, have come into closer focus. It seems to me that the larger member firms are a bit too close to the process.

A Guide to Strategic Networking

Boca Raton – “Do you think what I wear to the office is important?” asked Fred, a new advisor we met at a workshop.  He went on to say, “I recently changed firms and the culture here is different.  The advisors I...