With markets collapsing last fall, Nicholas Rowe, a financial advisor with Focus Capital, a registered investment advisor in Bedford, New Hampshire that clears trades through Schwab Institutional, began buying inverse exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...
For the past half-decade or more, financial advisors have been shifting from commissions to fees as they seek steadier revenue flows, pursue greater flexibility with client accounts and offer more planning services. And yet, for the industry...
If President Obama is truly a new kind of FDR arriving on the scene to the American economy from itself then he would be wise to read Amity Shlaes new-ish history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man (HarperCollins, 2007). In the book a...
The hot news at 2009’s largest gathering of estate-planning lawyers was not about the law. At the 2009 Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning’s opening session discussing recent developments, Dennis I. Belcher of Virgina’s...
Most estate-planning attorneys come across clients who want to attach some sort of condition on gifts they make to descendants and other beneficiaries
If you cater to high-net-worth clients, they have probably already made significant investments in property and casualty (P&C) insurance to protect tangible assets like property, art, yachts and antique collections.
Economic uncertainties and the full weight of a bear market have many Americans reeling. The squeeze is on for workers: They can't borrow against their homes (that is, those who still have homes). Their credit card limits are being lowered. Yet...