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A good old-fashioned team meeting can help prevent errors that stem from miscommunication.

What type of investments do you avoid? Do your clients understand why?

John M. “Jack” McCarthy, who became a widely quoted stock market bull during a 32-year career at Lord Abbett & Co., where he managed the flagship Affiliated Fund (LAFFX), has died. He was 85.

News headlines today are riddled with fines and lawsuits against some of the biggest financial brands in the world, even as regulators crack down and push major legislative overhauls into implementation, such as 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in the U.S. and Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in the UK.

Pioneer Investments is reshuffling its fund lineup including reorganizing four domestic equity funds and liquidating another.

Are you neglecting women clients and their specific needs in the financial planning process?

You’re great at talking to clients, right? Now make that skill translate for the camera.

First, there was the Great Recession.

Stock funds started the year with a bang.

Earlier this month, Goldman Sachs started the congo line, which quickly formed to include other money market fund players such as J.P. Morgan Funds, BlackRock Fidelity Investments, Federated Investors, Reich & Tang and State Street Global Advisors, all of whom have announced plans to publish the market value of assets in their funds everyday, while keeping the net asset values in their funds priced at $1 a share.

Jonathan Baum, the chairman and CEO of Dreyfus, resigned from the firm on Monday, Jan. 21, to pursue other interests, Morningstar reports.

Who better to help kickoff an educational alternatives summit series than Jeffrey Gundlach?

For alternative mutual funds, 2012 was a mixed bag.

Exchange-traded products are on a roll, following up a record year of flows with a major milestone the first month of the new year.

The Investment Company Institute is proposing that prime money market funds impose temporary “gates” and fees to halt redemptions during times of market stress.

Three industry veterans with nearly a million in production have jumped from Morgan Stanley to Raymond James in Newtown, Pa.

Morgan Stanley financial advisor Michael Merlin, number 19 on the Top 40 Under 40 list, says that making listening to clients a priority gives him an advantage over other advisors.

In 2012, revenue from wealth management services reached $29.8 million, a 37.5% increase from 2011.

Professor John Grable touched a nerve when he suggested in Financial Planning’s current issue that a mandatory AUM tax on advisors could help make financial planning available to all American families. Actually, he touched a lot of nerves.

The Republican chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp, R-Mich., released a draft document Thursday proposing a series of tax reforms for various types of financial derivatives and other financial products, building on work done by his committee over the past two years.