Cast Your Vote Which article in the July 2011 issue did you find most useful?

Might some of your single clients unknowingly need life insurance? “One typical reason young people (in their 20s and 30s) buy life insurance is to protect their insurability,” says Ronald Klein, assistant vice president at Sun Life...

VWG Wealth Management, with assets of $700 million, is the fifth wirehouse team this year to join HighTower Advisors, a Chicago-based hybrid RIA with national reach and $18 billion in AUM. HighTower signed up three Merrill Lynch teams in Palm...

Systematic termination of revocable trusts

RIMM will continue to lose market share, and face declining revenue, margins and average selling prices. The end result will be a firesale of RIMM, perhaps to Dell (DELL), MSFT, or an East Asian hardware maker...

Austin: “I’m a natural in social circles. My family has excellent contacts and I can get face-to-face with all of them socially” began Jim. He continued, “But now what? I always have this issue of bridging the gap between social relationships and...

For single-family offices, a recent Securities and Exchange Commission ruling marked the beginning of an identity crisis writ large–one that will reshape the family office business and may ultimately benefit wealth and asset managers.

Under an SEC order issued today, it will require considerably more wealth or assets for an investor to qualify to pay an investment adviser performance fees. The higher thresholds, mandated by Dodd-Frank reform, are meant to take inflation into...

FOX Survey Shows Growing Confidence in Economy and Financial Markets but Increased Conservatism in Investment Philosophy