With the breakaway broker debate raging, and smaller independent b/ds imploding all over the place, we launched our first Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card survey.
Variable annuities get a bad rap for a reason: they're so often used to abuse seniors. Despite a big coordinated effort among regulators to stamp out such abuse in recent years, plenty of fraudsters still manage to fly under the radar. Take one...
The last decade has seen both the tech wreck and the housing bubble burst, leaving greater skepticism about financial institutions and a deeper interest in identifying “bubbles” amongst both the professional and investing public...
As long-time readers know, we've been conducting a financial advisor satisfaction survey how FAs really feel about their firms for 19 years. With the rise of the independent broker/dealer, we thought we'd take the pulse of how independent...
Joel Greenblatt, managing principal of Gotham Asset Management, is the author of The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success. While the book is aimed at retail investors, financial advisors might do well to...
Rep. TV, the magazine's video source for financial advisors, now features in-house video interviews with industry experts who stop by Registered Rep.'s editorial offices. Stay tuned for more of these videos going forward
Shares of LinkedIn (LNKD) rose 109 percent from the offering price of $45 per share on their first day of trading, May 19, making it the third-best performing IPO of the current bull market and the fifth-best performing IPO since 2001.
Younger investors, we were told, lost their taste for equities after getting beaten up by two recessions in the past 10 years. But new data from Vanguard suggest that Gen Y's aversion to risk may be overstated. The company found that in the...
Partners Fillip Gershon and David Wren of Safe Harbor Financial are hoping to lure wirehouse advisors to the independent side of the business. Who isn't? The two recently expanded their office space in Wall, N.J., from four to nine offices and...
