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A topic of great concern to RIAs as markets remain volatile is how to manage portfolios for skittish clients, according to a survey by Invesco and Cogent Research. The survey covered 206 RIAs with an average of $488 million in investable assets.

A recent survey of 1,000 mass affluent investors uncovered a statistic that startled researchers: 75% of men said they wanted their spouse or partner to take more a more responsible role with their joint money.

A lot more mass affluent investors know what a CFP is than was the case just a few months ago. That’s what an early study of the CFP Board’s four-year, $40 million advertising and brand awareness campaign shows, the board reported in a media briefing this week.

NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse said they would shed overlapping European derivatives businesses and open up clearing services to derivatives rivals, in a bid to win European regulators’ approval of their $10.1 billion merger.

A lot more mass affluent investors know what a CFP is than was the case just a few months ago. That’s what an early study of the CFP Board’s 4-year, $40 million advertising and brand awareness campaign shows, the board reported in a media briefing this week.

The International Securities Exchange said Thursday that it intended to provide venture capital to the exchange-traded product industry.

Many planners don’t know a key neurobiological fact about a panicked client: namely, the client may not be able to process any advice until they calm down, Cynthia Harrington, a Los Angeles-based behavioral health consultant to the financial services industry, told a gathering of planners at the Women Advisors Forum in Huntington Beach, Calif.

The operator of an all-electronic options exchange and licenser of financial indexes said it was beginning to fund the creation of exchange-traded funds by other parties.

UBS Wealth Management Americas has hired two financial advisors from Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Cetera Financial Group CEO Valerie Brown shares four lessons she said have had great impact on both her business and her life during the Women Advisors Forum in Huntington Beach, Calif.