Portfolio

Financial advisors: Here's how to get a baseline reading of your own firm's practices.

Risk assessment questionnaires may produce flawed results because they don’t adequately focus on an client’s need to take risks.

Succession planning was the driving force behind the merger, according to principals for both firms.

Risk assessment questionnaires may produce flawed results because they don’t adequately focus on an client’s need to take risks.

Despite a commitment by Schorsch to keep top executives, Roth, the former Advisor Group CEO, will head the new management team.

The investment business is full of twists and turns, and it is not just portfolio managers and analysts that have to constantly read the changing winds; as a marketing professional you must also adapt as the market changes. The last few years have been tough for mutual fund marketers, with investors leaving this product for ETFs and moving assets from equity products to those that specialize in fixed income.

The regulatory drive to designate mutual funds or their managers as systemically important financial institutions increasingly looks like a campaign to extend the power of central banks and other banking regulators over global capital markets.

Events are a great way for advisors to build business and interact with qualified prospective clients, but you must be creative. Here are some fresh ideas.

Clients who suddenly come into newfound wealth can see that money dissipate just as quickly as it appeared. Advisors can be an anchor on financial reality. Here's how.

Given the increased volatility, now is a good time to examine some of the subtleties of dividends and dividend-paying stocks.