Life Insurance Trends for Wealth Planners: Unique Approaches for Advising High-Net-Worth Clients
May 17, 2011
What’s Going on in the Life Insurance Market? What Myths Need to be Dispelled? Is Life Insurance Affected by the Markets or is it Different than Other Financial Products? Policy Maintenance vs. Management? How Do Agents and Carriers Operate? What...
Special Needs Alliance Member Renée Lovelace Wins Theresa Award
May 17, 2011
May 17, 2011 (Tucson, Arizona)-- Special Needs Alliance member Renée C. Lovelace is the NAELA Honoree for the 2011 Theresa Award. This recognition is bestowed annually by the Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation on a NAELA member whose “above and...
For Good Insurance, Get a Financially Sound Insurer
May 17, 2011
How well-diversified are your big-ticket clients’ life insurance issuers...
Advisors Promised the Moon, But Get Hard Cheese
Advisors Promised the Moon, But Get Hard Cheese
May 17, 2011
Advisors are often recruited to broker/dealers based on promises that the firm later fails to deliver on, according to a recent Registered Rep. reader poll...
Paying Too Much For Alpha?
Paying Too Much For Alpha?
May 16, 2011
Forget what you hear about gold and silver being rare commodities. Far more precious than metals is that holy grail of money management -- alpha. The cost of acquiring market outperformance -- or, more properly, the cost of acquiring the...
Advent Acquires Rival Black Diamond in $73M Deal
May 13, 2011
Wealth management software firm Advent Software announced plans Thursday to acquire rival Black Diamond Performance Reporting for $73 million—a move that will cement Advent’s hold in the portfolio management software playing field...
Photo Gallery: Registered Rep.'s 31st Annual Altruism Award Winners
May 13, 2011
Street Legal: Blaming, Naming, and FINRA Gaming
Street Legal: Blaming, Naming, and FINRA Gaming
May 12, 2011
Suppose that an unhappy investor didn't specifically name you in a lawsuit or arbitration when he complained about your investing advice. You'd think that would get you off the regulatory disclosure hook, right? Think again...
Golden Handcuffs Loosen
Golden Handcuffs Loosen
May 12, 2011
Two years ago, over 20,000 advisors switched firms after the market tanked and three of the major Wall Street brokerage firms were swept up into shotgun marriages with other financial giants. Some advisors left Wall Street because they were...
7 Key Attributes of Top Assistants
7 Key Attributes of Top Assistants
May 12, 2011
The increasing importance that the advisor-assistant relationship plays in the loyalty of today's affluent client prompted the Oechsli Institute to conduct a study on advisors and assistants. Among numerous findings, we were able to uncover seven...
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