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If you want to grow your advisory business you’ll need to create a defined process with clear goals and ensure all of your staff are on board, said Spenser Segal of ActiFi at the IMCA conference in Vail, Colorado on Monday.

If you want to know what the outlook will look like for 2011 look back at 2010, said Jeffrey Kleintop of LPL Financial in his opening remarks at the IMCA Practice Management Conference in Vail, Colorado on Monday.

PHOENIX—If the U.S. economy grows at Goldman Sachs’ forecast of 2.7% in 2011 and 3.6%, this will represent three years of respectable growth, said Heather Shemilt, managing director and head of the pensions, endowments and foundations group at Goldman Sachs. Shemilt was addressing Information Management Network’s “Super Bowl of Indexing” here Monday. In the first three quarters of this year, the U.S. GDP has grown 2.63%.

Tech guru Kip Gregory offers his guidance to take advisors the next level.

Says it creates a more bureaucratic government, rather than a nimble, forward-looking one.

The trustee seeking to recover funds lost in the Bernard Madoff securities fraud Sunday sought $9 billion from international banking firm HSBC, in a bankruptcy court complaint.

PrimeVest Financial Services, Inc. has tapped into a substantial demand for third-party marketing services among banks and credit unions that want temporary solutions or want to limit their level of commitment.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration on Monday proposed disclosures on target-date funds offered in 401(k) plans.

The only software that really has intrinsic value is the software that can predict returns on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds or single stocks.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has hired Michael Falcon as a managing director and head of retirement in the United States and Canada.

As part of an initiative to expand, the New York-based wealth manager hired Michael C. Brown as a partner and director of wealth management.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association has upped the ante in its dispute with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board over the self-regulator’s proposal to nearly double the fees it collects from dealers, warning that the MSRB must do a better job of explaining the need for the increase.

Private Advisors LLC, was founded by Louis Moelchert, Jr., the former manager of University of Richmond's endowment. It has about $3.9 billion under management.

Community banks are poised to revisit in 2011 many of the troubled loans they worked hard to restructure this year.

The Federal Reserve Board is now leading an examination of put-back risk at the largest banks, asking institutions to include their exposure to repurchases in reports to the central bank about their capital strength.

In On Wall Street's fourth annual ranking, the young hotshots of The Street talk clients and strategy. Here's how this year's top 40 advisors under 40 stack up.

Looking for a stocking stuffer for your favorite financial planner? Check out the 10 best-selling books for advisors from Amazon.com.

The fees on securities transactions and on registrations of securities that fund the operations of the Securities and Exchange Commission are set to jump as much as 62 percent, once its budget for the next fiscal year are approved.

Tom Naratil, promoted internally, to replace him, while Sergio Ermotti will join from UniCredit and run Europe.

Salient Partners LP, a $16 billion Houston-based wealth manager, has agreed to buy RDG Capital LLC, a Houston boutique wealth advisory firm.