Subject Root Tag

Advisors debate the merits of alternative investing for their clients at NAPFA in Las Vegas.

Elise Fortin, Umpqua Private Bank’s newly appointed leader in Seattle, believes that Umpqua’s “high-touch” offerings will resonate well with business owners and Gen X investors.

Many banks plan to add to their branch networks over the next few years even though all the evidence suggests that foot traffic is declining and that most banking transactions are now conducted online.

A new study attempts to quantify the very real effect that low interest rates and muted yields in certain asset classes could have on investors' retirement planning.

Your IRA Expert answers questions about a potential new cap on IRAs and how to reduce the tax bill of a self-employed person taking distributions from a 401(K).

Technology innovations are critical for advisors to remain on the cutting edge and retain the next generation of clients.

With Mother’s Day just around the corner, millions of Americans are shopping for flowers and gifts. But some advisors may want to offer female clients something more substantive: financial security.

Fidelity Investments has rolled out a target volatility strategy, the Fidelity VIP Target Volatility Portfolio. The portfolio seeks to manage total return volatility within a target range.

Bruce Karpati, the former national chief enforcement officer of the SEC's asset management unit, has been named chief compliance officer for Prudential Investments.

“This is not an easy business,” Carson told an audience on Thursday of over 500 advisors at the 24th Peak Excell Meeting. “It is a rewarding but difficult business … and we have to constantly reinvest and reinvent.”

Want a technology investment with a real payoff? Steer clear of hot Internet stocks. Instead, make a technology investment in your own practice.

For solo practitioners, who's got your back? Here's how one group of RIAs decided to support each other.

Personnel development is key to making firms successful. The risk of not putting in the effort to develop employees is having potential successors walking out the door.

Advisors are not doing a good enough job planning for health care costs. To better serve clients, advisors must understand the realities of health care, despite many unknowns.

TIAA-CREF has appointed Robert Leary as executive vice president and president of TIAA-CREF Asset Management, effective June 24, 2013.

Which financial institutions "get" LinkedIn? Jennifer Grazel, the social media network’s global head of category development - financial services, offers up several examples.

During market bubbles a lot of details get overlooked, according to Dawn Bennett. With the Dow hitting a new high of 15,000, we have to ask ourselves – what are we missing? How long can this last?

Hilliard Lyons hired Grover “Butch” Canty as a public finance banker to further the firm’s expansion in Western Kentucky.

Legg Mason filed with the SEC yesterday to launch the Western Asset Ultra Short Obligations Fund, which will be sub-advised by its subsidiary, Western Asset Management Company,

WisdomTree filed with the SEC yesterday to register the S&P 500 Managed Distribution Fund. The fund will track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S&P 500 Managed Distribution Index.