Bob Veres

Planners need another skill set to help their clients cope with major life events.

Advisors who are accustomed to serving wealthier clients may wonder how to most effectively assist a middle-class clientele. Here's how to make it work in your practice.

The traditional way of charging clients is rapidly falling by the wayside as advisors seek better options. Don’t get left behind.

New digital tools are paving the way for advisors to create hybrid services that will increase both reach and profitability. See a few of the newer options.

A recent coaching seminar has me recalibrating my understanding of practice management. You may need to adjust yours, too.

If regulators can't tell the cultural differences between wirehouses and independent RIAs, Bob Veres has put together a few survey questions they can use.

Did you read the most recent SEC funding memo to Congress? Bob Veres did -- and if he had the ear of Mary Jo White, here's what he'd say to her.

Here's what the brokerage industry's disinformation-mongers might be telling senior brokerage executives.

Investors have gotten more desperate in their pursuit of yield, reaching for ever-dicier products. What could possibly go wrong?

Advisors need to face a hard truth: Independent RIAs have lost this round. Fortunately, there are other, better ways to set yourself apart.

Want to insulate your firm from future crises? A few moves look sure to offer a payoff whether equities soar, plunge or just muddle along.

In which the author takes a pair of popular assessments and finds he’s not as daring as he thought he was.

A set of mid-1990s recommendations aimed to reform Wall Street's culture. They didn't, however -- and the real losers were investors.

Planners are facing another competitive attack. Previous threats made the profession stronger - will that happen this time?

A growing band of advisors is charging their clients purely for advice. Here's why you should be paying attention.

High-speed trading isn’t such a big problem for investors - but the underlying structure of the U.S. financial markets just might be.

Independent planners can not win a battle against Wall Street unless they find a way to defeat well-funded lobbyists in the industry.

The hyper-partisan nature of this last Presidential election was guaranteed to create a long, unhappy hangover for half of the American population, and it created a particular challenge for financial planners and investment advisors. Billions of dollars were spent to tell investors and clients that America is going to hell in a handbasket. People were emotionally invested in the outcome

Financial Planning columnist Bob Veres says advisors need to understand what could happen if FINRA becomes their regulator.

While the recent FPA Convention provided some new and very interesting presentations and introduced some pretty high-brow concepts, Financial Planning columnist Bob Veres felt far too many of the presentations were bogged down by speakers who decided -- or were compelled -- to “dumb down” the material to appeal to the lowest common denominator. What did you think?