Financial advisors are missing the mark when it comes to high-net-worth clients nearing retirement—at least those are the findings of The Phoenix Companies’ recently released seventh annual Wealth Survey.

If you’re ignoring the women business owner segment of the marketplace, you may be handicapping your own potential.

Merrill’s global private client group (GPC) registered a pretax earnings increase of 53 percent, to $701 million, in the second quarter ending June 30, up from $457 million in the same period in 2005.

If you are a rep who works for Citigroup or Morgan Stanley, you might be annoyed to see your company’s name in the papers for running afoul of the new conflicts of interest and research.

Financial advisors need to take better care of their clients, because if they do, their clients will take care of them. And if they don’t, well, they stand the chance of losing a good chunk of their business.

When it comes to investing, the bottom line for your clients is, well, the bottom line.

While Americans continue their love affair with foreign cars, wines and watches, they remain cool to foreign stocks even as the reasons for investing in them grow stronger.

Advisors looking for more information on hedge funds can now turn to Morningstar.

What do ELKS, ASTROS, BULS, ARNs, BOXES and ComPS all have in common? They’re all part of the fledgling “structured products” boom. Wirehouses and banks are marketing them as diversification tools

four short profiles of some veteran professionals who have successfully helped their associates with their careers.