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Aston Asset Management, LP has promoted Mark Kim to managing director, Southeast region where he will be responsible for external sales. Kim has been with Aston for seven years.

How do you reach out to gun-shy investors and get them talking to their advisors, and vice versa?

Financial services firms, including mutual fund managers, admitted that they invited negative public perception by their actions, or inactions, according to the 2012 Makovsky Wall Street Reputation Study.

Mutual funds come in every shape, size and color imaginable. How else are newcomers and smaller fund firms supposed to contend against 8,500 of their peers, already extant?

There were more than 7,693 mutual funds at the end of February 2012, according data from the Investment Company Institute.

Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the six firms that scored above the national average in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

The moment was remarkable, if not dramatic.

Investment advisor Matthew Tuttle spends a lot of time moving the money of newly-acquired clients out of mutual funds and into exchanged-traded instruments.

Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the six firms that scored above the national average of 774 points in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Not every present a taxable one, according to the IRS.