Portfolio management

The outage hit the group’s Morcom electronic trading platform, which employees use to place orders on behalf of wealthy clients.

The market meltdown has slammed billionaires from every part of the globe and every industry.

A time to buy or a warning to avoid timing markets?

Few clients think to look at the impact of capital gains on their mutual funds.

“It’s like shopping on Amazon for real estate,” says one investor. But clients pay a premium for the access and convenience.

There is quite a bit of data indicating planners timed the markets poorly during the financial crisis. Let's not make the same mistakes again.

Mutual funds and ETFs are often created with lopsided or unequal allocations toward certain sectors of the economy, experts warn.

Interestingly, the measure often used by analysts and planners just happens to be the one that doesn’t reflect how most clients actually invest or withdraw money.

For planners who embrace the potential to provide these services, it can be a natural next-generation service offering.

That would be a big “no,” in most cases, according to FINRA, but gives rise to another question…

We can all play a part in preparing for this and future outbreaks.

Investment in socially beneficial activities can be worthwhile. But it ignores the question of who decides what is beneficial.

“The advice I give is to calculate the financial impact for each option,” an expert says.

The $180 billion asset manager is moving ahead with plans for actively-managed ETFs that disclose their holdings like mutual funds.

The spike in the number of older employees in the workplace reflects a trend over the past decade.

Other global health threats, such as SARS, did not have long-term impact on stocks. COVID-19 might be another matter.

Advisors can protect clients’ estate planning goals post-Secure Act but the vehicle will have to change.

Fear and worry are rampant. One client asked if any other client had recently returned from China.

Advisors can use the information to build custom, values-based portfolios for their clients.