Portfolio

This is one of the most difficult conversations that planners have with clients, and yet it can be the key to success, experts say.

"Despite brave talk about 'I'll never put my kids through what happened to me with my parents,' 75% of people never have that cross-generational conversation," an elder care specialist told advisors at the FPA conference in Seattle, Wash.

American Depository Receipts can provide investors with an easy way to directly hold equities from around the world.

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

Brad Bueermann of FP Transitions says you should go with the right fit when buying or selling an advisory business.

‘Dare to be vulnerable,’ planner advises colleagues at FPA conference.

Sophisticated investors are grabbing for high-yield municipal debt whenever they can find it, creating demand for alternatives beyond the Puerto Rico, Detroit, and tobacco bonds that dominate the non-investment grade segment of the secondary market.

Most advisors agree that having a defined and effective communications plan is critical, but far fewer give themselves a top rating for having such a plan. Here are five steps advisors can take to improve their client communications.

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New online advisory services are turning up the heat for advisors. Know how to arm yourself.