Charlotte: “Get this,” said one of the participants from our recent affluent focus group. “I met with my accountant over the holidays to go over year-end details and then stopped by my advisor’s office to drop off a sizable check—he was off for...
“We’ll probably see, especially now, clients less interested in investments and more interested in managing cash.So [software] solutions that do more than just spit out an investment [idea], but also a debt management and emergency...
It hasn't been easy. Although some estates may have reaped the benefits of the lapsed 2010 estate tax, estate-planning practitioners were left with the unenviable task of figuring out and explaining to their clients the best strategies to use...
Despite uncertainty surrounding new regulatory reform, registered investment advisors are reinvesting in their firms, especially in their staff, according to a recent survey conducted by TD Ameritrade Institutional.
Focusing on clients and growth is the natural instinct of our industry. Still, before we turn the page to a new year, we all have to make sure that we have brought to conclusion all the open items from this one.
New York City will be the cornerstone of U.S. Bank’s east coast wealth management build-up, according to Heidi Steiger, who was appointed Atlantic region president of the bank’s Private Client Reserve unit earlier this month.
Dallas: “Since it’s probably too late to plan a year-end team retreat, what would you suggest as an alternative?” asked Cliff, during a break at a team leader workshop I was conducting. What prompted the question was an annual team retreat sample...
According to Wealth-X’s state-by-state analysis of individuals with a net worth of more than $30 million, California far outpaces the rest, with over 9,800 ultra-high-net worth residents, compared with 7,327 for New York and 5, 283 for...
Getting rid of smaller accounts could mean more production for advisors, according to a new study from PriceMetrix, a Toronto-based solutions provider for retail wealth managers...
