There's an old saying in investment management consulting: If you want a clear picture of a manager, look at him during a bear market. Evaluating, selecting and monitoring managers requires sound judgment and significant due diligence; it is part...
If you're an advocate of states' the 529 college savings plan is the investment choice for you. Started by Congress in 1996 and named after the section in the IRS code that permits them, these investment programs are run by state governments and...
You dipped, you took a bite, you dipped again! Most of us have seen the Seinfeld episode in which George Costanza receives this reprimand after attacking some party snacks in a most unsanitary manner. The comedy of that moment resided in Costanza...
The NASD says its core mission is ensuring market integrity and investor confidence goals few in the industry have trouble supporting. Trouble is, in its pursuit of its consumer-protection mission, the NASD often gives short shrift to the equally...
Just when it looked like all those scandals were behind us and the markets were helping mend fences with leery clients, the business has gotten yet another black eye. This time, the problem is with mutual funds more precisely how favored traders...
The one-stop financial shop is still, after all this talk, the Promised Land. Management and even reps dream about cross selling, about grabbing more business from their current clients, about creating deeper relationships the truly kind in which...
If you believe their critics, annuities are a big ripoff financial vehicles that are flogged by financial advisors merely for their high commissions. This is unfortunate, for annuities (both fixed and variable) can be useful financial planning...
The Financial Planning Association has lamented, along with many of its members, the absence of a specific lobbying organization for independent broker/dealers. The FPA is now trying to do something about it. The Atlanta-based trade group has...
50 Heavy Hitters Singled-Out in Annual Advisor Survey Represent $75 Billion in Assets Under Management New York, NY - September 15, 2003 - What does it take to be the best? PRIMEDIA's Registered Rep. magazine, the source of information for...
