If you are a veteran financial advisor, maybe you recently lost a small client someone with, say, $25,000 in an education IRA. If so, there's a decent chance that the loss barely registered with you. Well, I'm here to tell you that such a laissez...

Mortgage refinancings, the bread-and-butter of many a transaction broker through 2002 and early 2003, are declining, and that has many concerned.

The mutual fund hangover is starting to subside. In 2000, fund investors and their advisors awoke to a doozey of a day-after: a market nosedive that caused investors not only to lose money but also socked them with capital gains tax bills for the...

We've Heard of Performance Anxiety, But Sheesh Never mind comparing yourself to the S&P 500. According to Wired News, one of the people placing an online order for for a certain, well, 'enlargement' product is the manager of a $6 billion mutual fund.

Behind the positive facade of the new alternative minimum tax exemptions lurks an insidious time bomb. Here's how to prepare your clients.

They live the life of an ordinary rep--only in an outsized way. They are the biggest of the big producers, and here's how they got that way.

Dismissed by many on Wall Street as a mere momentum investor, Investor's Business Daily founder William O'Neil is still preaching his style of growth known as CANSLIM.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts recently issued a fraud alert concerning Senior Benefit Centers Network and Senior Financial Survival Workshops. In its sales training to associates, the organization suggests playing upon memories of the...

What can a rep do about disagreements over the distribution of a client's wealth to family members?

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