You'd think the U.S. dollar had bitten the dust from all the breathless reporting of its savaging in the foreign exchange market. From the headlines, you'd think the world was selling dollars in 2008 en masse. But it's been worse. Consider that...

An advisor turns to outside separate accounts manager to help him turn a sophisticated prospect with tax-management issues into a client.

A controversial economist says government attempts to increase home ownership are at the root of the sub-prime mortgage mess.

Maybe your sales assistant is like Debbie Wagner who shuns vacation time to keep others from messing with clients, or maybe your assistant is more like Joni Schultz who arrives at work before sunrise.

Considering selling all or part of your book? Buyers don’t seem to have a preference for a business model—whether you are an investment manager, say, or a financial planner; what they do care about are present and future revenue streams.

The California Attorney General, Edmund “Jerry” Brown, is considering a request by 51 former IndyMac bank employees to investigate New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer’s role in the collapse of IndyMac Bank.

It has been a cruel year for a lot of wirehouse advisors, with the sub-prime and ARS messes eroding client confidence in their firms. But times are good for registered investment adviser (RIA) firms. In fact, there is new evidence out there that...

In the fall of 2003, newspaper headlines blaringly announced the arrival of the mutual fund market-timing scandals.

The editors of Registered Rep. are undertaking a comprehensive survey of sales assistants, and to complement our disclosure of the results, which will appear in our October issue, we would like to profile a number of outstanding SAs. But we need...