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Managing a deluge of data analytics, adapting blockchain technologies, and providing increased data record security and transparency by regulators and investors are all issues firms will face, NICSA members say.

Make sure to devise a clear, easy-to-understand plan that correctly values the practice.

Make sure to devise a clear, easy-to-understand plan that correctly values the business.

With user growth soaring developing countries, mutual funds focused on emerging economies are increasing investments in the Menlo Park, California-based company.

Banks and investment funds are hiring quants — people with training in physics or higher mathematics — as market intervention by central banks make it difficult to post robust profits.

Use this rubric to avoid mistakes and ensure success.

Gold has rallied 27% this year as the Federal Reserve held off on raising U.S. interest rates.

The funds will track indexes that draw on the expertise of the firm's quantitative-research team.

Once the workload has become too much, be careful and deliberate about teaming up.

The positioning leaves the biggest speculators at odds with an increasingly skeptical analyst contingent on Wall Street.

Bossen joined as director of ETF business development at the institutional intermediary division and will focus on the IndexIQ unit that MainStay acquired last year.

Previous life stages all have compelling examples and clear stories that guide and engage us through the decades. Retirement, not so much.

Clients may not even know the right questions. You need to tell them, and provide the answers.

Some bright spots for advisers: A surprising number of boomers have not begun saving yet for retirement; and millennials will need decades of advice.

These independent broker-dealers generated the most revenue from commission-based accounts.

Set the firm’s tone through these imperatives and give a copy to employees in the final interview.

While in the past the buzzwords have led to measurable evolution, this time it looks and feels a bit different.