Practice

The world today is filled with coaches of every type. So many, in fact, you may question what a coach really does (and if a financial advisor needs one.)

It's not surprising that risk management and cost containment remain high priorities for fund companies and service providers.

s Vanguard engaged in a fee war in the mutual fund space?

A jury last week found the father and son running the Reserve Primary fund not guilty of fraud but liable on one count of negligence.

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

Young and up-and-coming planner Winnie Sun is a passionate advocate for the role that social media can play in attracting Generation Y clients. But recently a routine LinkedIn inquiry she made yielded a benefit that surprised even her: a huge client prospect who she thinks she never could have met otherwise

As we see Washington posturing over the fiscal cliff, we are right to wonder where the Statesmen (and women) are. But what to do from an advisor’s perspective?

Financial advisors often handle getting their clients’ affairs in order in case they die, but when it comes to succession planning for their own practices, that is often another matter entirely.

President Obama met with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday to negotiate over the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the looming problem of the so-called “fiscal cliff,” with the leaders agreeing that the meeting had been constructive.

Three years ago, Shannon Ryan of Manhattan Beach, Calif., left a position training and overseeing advisors with Ameriprise to return to full-time planning herself. The veteran of a successful planning practice years earlier on the East Coast, Ryan realized that her neighbors in California knew her mainly as the mother to two young daughters.