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This list is purely quantitative so those people skills that are so important in any business relationship are simply not captured here.

Professional football players spend 95% of their time preparing — advisors should take a page from that playbook and beef up their referral processes.

After 30 years of declining rates, this past spring was a modest reminder that the tide also rises. The next time will be a disaster unless your clients act now.

Often advisors cross the finish line of their careers only to sell their books of business at half their value. Don't let that happen to you.

Here are this year's best financial advisors in the bank channel and the secrets to their success.

(Bloomberg) -- Illinois legislative leaders reached a tentative agreement on fixing the worst-funded U.S. public pension system and will submit it to lawmakers for a vote Dec. 3, according to a spokesman for Senate President John Cullerton. “The Senate president will be debriefing members of his caucus in the coming days in hopes of garnering support,” Ronald Holmes said in an e-mail. …

IMF Says Canada Can Wait Until 2015 to Raise Interest Rates

Deka Buys London’s St. Botolph Building for $680 Million

Breaking out of the traditional allocation model to include a much broader range of investment categories and using relative strength principals to reallocate frequently may be one way to achieve stronger results for clients.

Some academics maintain that if a client obtains an immediate annuity, it pays an income stream for life and the individual is less likely to outlive his or her money. But of course, many planners often see issues with this in real-life situations.