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.
Fort Lauderdale: “We’re considering integrating social media into our marketing plan,” Joseph started out saying. Then he backtracked—“Yet, all we hear about it is what we can’t do from a compliance perspective. What is the benefit of even getting...
Three out of four wealthy women are looking or thinking of looking for a better financial advisor, said Susan Hirshman, a former advisor and author, who spoke at the Investment Management Consultants Association’s conference in New York Monday.
Relationships with clients and the experience clients have with financial advisors and their companies have, of course, always been critical to success in wealth management. But since the financial crisis, firms have been ramping up their focus on...
It was a good quarter for Ameriprise’s Advice & Wealth Management segment. It posted total revenue of $1.03 billion, a record, up 15 percent year over year. Pre-tax operating earnings of $90 million were up 157 percent from a year earlier.
On Dec. 17, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the Act). Among other things, the Act makes changes in the tax law for calendar years 2011 and 2012 that: (1)...
Funny things happen in the practice of law. This column will share some of them from over 30 years of my practice with clients all over the world. On a cold winter day in Chicago, I met my client in the lobby of one of the city's prominent banks...
During 2010, Internal Revenue Code Section 26641 and Section 901 of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (the 2001 Act) caused considerable confusion as to how the generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax would be applied in...
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010,1 among other things, ended the nail-biting uncertainty about the estate tax thresholds for 2011. (For more information, see New Rates, New Exemptions, New...
