Registered Rep: Cheers! It is your 50th year with Davidson Companies. How have advisors changed in that time? Ian Davidson: The entire investment business has changed. We have more investment advisors, they are more professional and it is more...
It may not come as a surprise that 58 percent of New Year's resolutions are finance related. Sadly, 51 percent of finance-related resolutions fall by the wayside within a month, according to a Harris Interactive survey. The most popular...
With 77 million baby boomers approaching retirement, advisors are surely looking for ways to win their business. One way? Financial gerontology. That's according to a recent survey by Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking, whose study specifically addresses...
Acting as Rocky Mountain Securities & Investments Inc.'s (RMSI) President, Director, Registered Financial and Operations Principal (FINOP), and Compliance Officer, Stephen J. Horning was a jack-of-all-trades unfortunately, he appeared not to be a...
What to do with the securities industry's Depression-era regulations that have investors confused over the difference between a registered investment advisor and a registered rep? After more than a year of collecting and analyzing data, the much...
Too Much Volume: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) fined 19 broker/dealers in January a total of $2.8 million for substantially overstating their advertised trade volume to three private service providers. These service providers...
I was watching a TV documentary recently about a middle-aged man who was preparing to swim the English Channel. A reporter asked him why he had chosen to undertake this particular challenge especially since the man, a popular TV comedian, was not...
Depending upon who you listen to, we are either in a recession, or one is gathering on the horizon. (The Fed's Beige Book says no recession just slower growth.) Either way, it takes a brave investor to start taking stakes in high-yield bond funds...
An advisor running his own RIA firm recently wrote a how-to book, fulfilling a long-held dream to become a published author. But, he wonders, how much time can he devote to marketing the work without it seriously taking away from his client...
In His New Book, Donald Trump admonishes us to Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life (Collins, $26.95). Tired of thinking small and failing to kick ass, I ventured to the Javitz Convention Center on New York City's west side one weekend in...
