Unified managed accounts (UMAs) have been slow to win favor with advisors, accumulating just $79 billion in assets over the past half-decade. But recent research from Cerulli Associates projects that UMA assets will reach $327 billion by 2013 (for...

Robert J. McCann, CEO, Wealth Management Americas, UBS

Despite short-term stock market volatility, lower revenues and compressed profit margins, the long-term growth prospects of the independent registered investment advisory industry are strong. In fact, 84 percent of advisors expect their firms to...

Mark S. Casady, CEO and Chairman of the board, LPL

There are a lot of regulatory uncertainties hanging over the investment industry in the wake of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which President Obama signed into law in July. In this issue

Gregory Salsbury, executive v.p. of Jackson National Life Distributors and author of the recently released book, "Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy."