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There are certain common traits and behavioral patterns of the more effective advisors, according to blogger Ken Haman. Of course, not all advisors demonstrate every one of these characteristics, but most of the highly successful people he's been privileged to work with exhibit at least several.

With low rates likely to persist, advisors will have to choose between a low return, currency-hedged, indexed global bond portfolio, or one that incurs greater risk and higher cost in pursuit of larger returns.

In order to capitalize on the opportunity to focus on female clients, you may be required to break some habits of the past.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. named Erik Bisso to run the bank’s chief investment office for North America, filling a vacancy created last year when Irene Tse left to start a hedge fund.

Fidelity reported a 53% increase in health savings accounts opened in 2012, raising the number of individual accounts administered by the company to 182,000.

In five years, Stratos Wealth Partners has grown from a glimmer of an idea to a firm with 130 advisors nationally and over $6 billion in assets under management. The secret to its success: a hybrid RIA model.

Income, safety and international. Those are the key words when it comes to describing the most popular mutual fund categories.

Steve Felchle and Jason Ernst, formerly with Wells Fargo, bring the total number of financial advisors at USBI to 532, up from 480 in July 2008.

MidAtlantic Trust Company said it had resolved record-keeping problems that have kept exchange-traded funds from being part of holdings in 401(k) and other retirement plans.

MidAtlantic Trust Company said it had resolved record-keeping problems that have kept exchange-traded funds from being part of holdings in 401(k) and other retirement plans.