Portfolio

Assets in defined contribution plans flowed to target-date and international equity funds in 2012, according to a new tracking tool launched by the Defined Contribution Solutions group at Northern Trust.

To evolve and succeed, advisors have to make the transition from practitioners to business owners. As a result we've seen larger firms arising as advisors attempt to add scalability.

Tax-exempt money market funds' inflows slowed to $819.6 million in the week ended June 17 after a $3.13 billion surge the week before, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

The first decade of the 21st Century dramatically changed the landscape for financial advisors.

Assets in defined contribution plans flowed to target-date and international equity funds in 2012, according to a new tracking tool launched by the Defined Contribution Solutions group at Northern Trust.

Money market mutual fund’s assets dropped $25.0 billion to $2.587 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, June 19, according to the Investment Company Institute.

iShares has launched the iShares MSCI Colombia Capped ETF (ICOL) to bet on companies in the burgeoning region.

DCIO sponsors take heed.

PIMCO is teaming up retirement technology platform providers Aria Retirement Solutions and insurer Transamerica Advisors Life Insurance Company to market retirement income products to asset-based fee-only Registered Investment Advisors.

Now that I'm entering my second week of running my own RIA, it's time to get out there and find clients. While I have prepared many avenues in which to do this, one worked out quite well already.