Dave Lindorff

Advisor Dan Dillard launched a video effort that’s on the verge of reaching thousands of clients beyond his book of business. Here’s part-1 of his story.

Some $152 billion left the equity markets last year. About $90 billion went into bonds and bond funds. That means $60 billion appears to have left financial markets altogether—that’s a lot of potential for bank advisors .

Financial advisors in the bank channel often talk about “leveraging” their branch’s tellers and lenders to build their client books. But it’s the rare bank investment program that effectively ends up partnering with other bank units. Kim Burdick, senior vice president and group executive for community banking at Fremont Bank in Fremont, Calif., thinks he knows the reason. …

“The banking space is definitely going to get smaller,” predicts Robert Bolton, president of Rochester, NY-based Iron Bay Capital, which runs a long-short fund that invests exclusively in financial institution stocks.

Even if a deal is negotiated to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, there are concerns on how the solution will affect clients’ portfolios.

Women describe themselves as more conservative investors who favor socially and environmentally responsible investments

An analysis by Spectrem Group found that 41% of wealthy investors surveyed said they relied primarily on their own research and analysis, while another 40% said they relied primarily on a trusted financial advisor.

The reduction in pension and health care benefits for public sector employees in Florida has led to a rush by people nearing retirement age to opt out early.

A lifelong athlete and a fan of the Minnesota Vikings, David Arndt had become an advisor. His "crazy" plan was to get a job where the Vikings did their banking — and it worked.

Advisors may want to take steps now to protect their clients’ portfolio’s from a "contagion" should the Greek government default, because, as Ken Volpert, head of Vanguard's Taxable bond Group sees it, default by Greece is a development that appears to be more and more likely by the day.

Within a day of each other, two companies -- Guggenheim Investments and Invesco -- launched new exchange traded funds for Chinese yuan-denominated bonds on the New York Stock Exchange.

Financial advisors and clients who may have been curious about exchange-traded fund managed portfolios but have been deterred by the lack of any objective rating or way to compare the performances of hundreds of these funds will soon have those tools at their disposal.

Employees who are automatically enrolled in target-date funds when they are signed up for a 401(k) plan are very likely to stick with the target date investment strategy for the long haul, according to a study conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).

Financial advisors and their wealthier clients will have a lot more separately managed alternative accounts to consider next year, according to a new study by Aite Group, the Boston-based independent financial industry research and advisory firm.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the proposal of a new rule designed “to prohibit certain material conflicts of interest between those who package and sell asset-backed securities (ABS) and those who invest in them.”

Investment Company Institute report finds that an astonishing $178 billion has moved out of mutual funds and equity ETFs in the past 30 months. Could this dramatic exodus from stocks mark the volatile market’s bottom and great buying opportunity for advisors and investors?

Advisors take heed: Investment firm UBS Wealth Management is announcing a reduction in its recommendation for equity weightings in portfolios from “neutral” to “moderate underweighting,” with a corresponding increase in cash holdings.

In a period of high market volatility like now, many mutual funds can be capital gains time bombs for investors including those buy-and-hold types who do just as their advisors recommend and sit tight while everyone else is fleeing the market.

Developing economies of the world are still showing robust growth, but that may not be enough to lift the sagging economies of the developed world which still account for 60% of combined global economic output, warns Lin Yifu, a World Bank senior vice president and chief economist.

Among current retirees, annuities account for only an average of 4% of household income. That’s the finding of a new study of annuity use among retirees and near retirees just released by LIMRA, the Connecticut-based financial industry research organization.