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Kris Jenner is trained as a surgeon and since 2000 has managed T. Rowe Price’s Healthcare Technology fund. Having an M.D. at the helm of a fund—and another on its analyst team—doesn’t hurt. Health Sciences boasts Lipper’s top scores for total return, consistent return and capital preservation, as well as low expenses.

Here’s a sad truth—you can spend your days absorbing knowledge and becoming very intelligent, but if you don’t do anything with that knowledge, you’re no better off than somebody else who sat around eating popcorn and watching reruns of Fantasy Island.

The rich will be getting even richer over the next decade and the pool of investors formerly identified as merely affluent will soon make the leap to millionaire status, creating plenty of growth opportunities for wealth managers and investment firms in the U.S. and abroad.

While the entire financial services industry simultaneously bemoans and braces for more oversight and regulation, advisors out in the field have to do a better job of understanding and articulating the difference between independence and objectivity when it comes to dispensing investment advice to existing and prospective clients, according to a new research report released this week by SEI.

Fidelity Investments announced that its ultra-high-net-worth program for independent RIAs has reached almost $2 billion in assets in just the first six months since its launch in October 2010.

Most broker-dealers and compliance departments are terrified of social media, but advisors cannot afford to be, Matthew Halloran a practice management coach at Peak Advisor Alliance said during the company’s Excell Meeting.

There's a new world order coming in mutual funds. And a new form of wholesaler -- colloquially called a "schmeek" -- will be helping financial advisers understand its new complexity and sell a constantly evolving kaleidoscope of new products to individual investors.

WASHINGTON—Stocks will return between 8% and 9% over the next three to five years, predicted Eddie C. Brown, president and CEO of Brown Capital Management, speaking on the “Industry Investments: Experience Talks” panel at the Investment Company Institute’s General Membership Meeting Thursday morning.

Ninety percent of advisors generate business through referrals, but only 10% to 15% of advisors ask for referrals. What are the secrets to improving those percentages?

Timothy W. McNamara has been registered with UBS’ Williamsville, N.Y. office since April 28.

In the perpetual race to keep advisors well equipped, efficient and loyal, Cetera Financial Group has just launched a technology platform for its investment adviser representatives.

Banks need to be prepared to show documentation of their processes as standards change under the Dodd-Frank legislation, a panel of financial industry experts said on Wednesday.

In a year that saw its share of challenges for insurance sales, banks still managed to generate record levels of fee income. Such income totaled $13.33 billion, up 7.9% from the 2009 total of $12.36 billion, according to the Michael White-Prudential Bank Insurance Fee Income Report.

The royal wedding, eliminating the notorious mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks--this is going to be a week to remember forever. But I also wonder whether it might represent another milestone.

The U.S. economy, while not poised to grow as rapidly as emerging nations and saddled with a $1.4 trillion a year deficit, has the fundamentals in place and “the resiliency and strength” to reclaim its position as the leading economy of the world, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told attendees at the Investment Company Institute’s General Membership Meeting here Wednesday.

While investors have overwhelmingly stayed the course and remained invested in mutual funds following the financial crises of 1987, 1990, 2000 and 2008, the latest credit crises has greatly reduced investors’ risk tolerance, said Investment Company Institute Chairman Edward C. Bernard in his opening keynote address to the ICI’s General Membership Meeting on Wednesday.

Marty Gruenberg, the No. 2 at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is expected to be nominated shortly as the agency's chairman, according to several sources.

A 20-year veteran of State Street, CEO Jay Hooley concluded that the custodial bank's business model did not have to fundamentally change — it just had to keep up with ...

When long-term interest rates ticked up late last year, it was widely believed that mortgage revenues would modestly decline in the first quarter. The drop was anything but modest.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the 1964 movie, a "fail-safe" point is where you sent fighter aircraft to meet a potential threat and await further instructions, before firing.