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The holidays are a great time to show your clients that you appreciate them and their business. If this is done well, it strengthens client relationships, helping with both retention and referrals.

While wealth management firms have increased communications in the wake of the financial crisis, their clients complain they don’t understand what they’re being given.

After performance, advisers look for robust support.

According to a survey, nearly half restored matches, increased participation.

“Incomplete monitoring and fractured reporting" makes it difficult for fund managers to see a complete picture of risks from derivatives, the U.K.’s securities regulator said in a draft proposal.

Investors pulled $4 billion out of long-term stock funds in November, according to Morningstar. Biggest loser: Muni-bond funds. Biggest winner: money market funds.

A change in the methodology the Federal Reserve uses to measure who owns municipal bonds has masked the growth in foreign ownership of state and local government debt.

From hot air balloons to bagels, 2010 proved to be yet another year in which states and municipalities passed some strange tax laws in a desperate bid to raise revenues and close their budget gaps.

Most billion-dollar community banks have skirted the surge of traditional mergers and acquisitions that has engulfed their smaller peers — until now.

Large banks won't know until the middle of next year what — if any — extra tax they'll face for being deemed "too big to fail."

On the same day it proposed new capital requirements for all institutions, the FDIC's board of directors approved a 2011 agency budget of $3.96B, a 0.7% drop from the previous year.

Wealth-X ranks the states with the most ultra-wealthy.

The key takeaway from 2011 will be the gap in economic performance between the developed and emerging economies, said Bank of America Merrill Lynch at its 2011 Year Ahead breakfast in New York City on Tuesday.

The Financial Services Authority is asking fund managers to improve how they monitor risks involved with derivative transactions.

Legg Mason has hired Peter H. Nachtwey as chief financial officer and a member of its executive committee, reporting to Chairman and CEO Mark R. Fetting.

Baby Boomers are set to inherit $8.4 trillion, and have already inherited $2.4 trillion, according to The MetLife Study of Inheritance and Wealth Transfer to Baby Boomers. Overall, two-thirds of Baby Boomers stand to receive some inheritance in their lifetime.

Ninety-six percent of institutional investors overwhelmingly believe Europe will be able to avoid a “full-fledged crisis,” according to the inaugural Barclays Capital Global Macro Survey.

While lavish recruitment packages are becoming the norm for Wall Street, all that glitters is not gold.

Variable annuities outsell fixed, but overall sales figures are uninspiring.

The outlook of chief executive officers of leading companies improved significantly in the fourth quarter from the previous quarter, according to the Business Roundtable’s 2010 CEO Economic Outlook Survey.