Long a Favorite of Investors in Europe, structured products are rapidly gaining popularity in the United States. Last year, $114 billion in structured products were issued in the U.S., according to the Structured Products Association. That's a 78...
Kuwait. Singapore. Russia. China. The government investment funds of these countries, and several others, may have saved our financial system from severe shock. Following over $100 billion in write-downs at the country's biggest banks due to bad...
The SEC voted in February to propose changes to the structure of the Form ADV, the disclosure document that all investment advisors must complete. Instead of the current online check-the-box format, investment advisors would be required to create...
One more time: Retail investors your clients are confused about the definition of a financial advisor. That is, they don't understand the difference between a Series 7 registered representative and a Series 65 investment advisor representative...
As we were going to press with the March 2008 issue of
Trusts & Estates magazine, we received an email from Kevin Matz of
White & Case, LLP, who has a piece in that issue entitled "Knight's
Decided.
Seems whenever you turn around, another triple–bottom–line company is launched. Unfamiliar with the lingo? "Triple bottom line" is a for-profit business that not only seeks a financial return, but also a social and environmental one. Among the...
You’ve been hearing about the paperless office for years. Yet, it seems the mound of printed matter in a financial-advisory office only continues to grow. But if you can manage to digitize your office, you’ll save big. According to a...
William D. Samers, a nationally respected authority on charitable estate planning and an attorney, has joined UJA-Federation of New York as vice president, planned giving and endowments, announced Paul M. Kane, senior vice president, financial...
As the wealth-management business gets more complex, and the war for talent and wealthy clients heats up, good, integrated technology systems are becoming more and more important. And wealth managers aren’t too happy with what they’ve...
