Practice management

Advisors can run taxable gain thresholds, estimate the tax implications of certain trades, harvest tax losses and continually monitor portfolios.

Spending on hardware, software and communications gear is expected to grow by more than 5% this year. Here's a snapshot look at the Gartner’s forecast for 2012.

A federal arbitration panel has fined the brokerage firm Morgan Keegan & Co. for mishandling the account of an Atlanta charity.

The offering gives 401(k) plan participants access to index mutual funds with low operating expenses as an alternative to more expensive actively managed funds typically found in most 401(k) plans.

Retirement plan clients can now get on-the-go portfolio analytics from BNY Mellon’s new iPad app, P Mobile Dashboard.

Lawmakers show deep interest in staying involved with 'Volcker Rule' during the implementation phase and regulators may actually be grateful.

Raymond James has named a former Goldman Sachs Investment Management vice president to the new position of director of retirement solutions.

Wedbush Securities has launched a new social media initiative for financial advisors, investment bankers and equity traders that encourages them to use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to boost their respective books of business.

Zephyr Associates, a financial analytics software provider to financial advisors, is seeing a steady increase in the percentage of RIA firms among its clients.

PrimeVest Financial, one of the big third-party marketers in the bank channel, launched a website designed to help banks and credit unions staff up their advisory programs. It also will help individual advisors search for new career opportunities across the country.

Marketing expert Marie Swift shares some ideas for riding the retirement wave, appealing to allied professionals and building name recognition within specific communities of interest.

Bank of the West expands its wealth management universe with a new center for high-net-worth clients in the heart of Silicon Valley.

SEC says it will no longer let companies "neither admit nor deny" charges in settling cases it brings against them. Sort of.

The voice is one of the most powerful – and unsung – tools advisors have to get their message across to clients.

Fidessa Group said it added foreign exchange trading to its buy-side workstation. The execution platform will provide advanced trading features for more than 1,300 currency pairs, the supplier of high-performance trading technology said.

Most industry professionals who know their mobile apps say every firm should have one, especially those that claim to be serious about being accessible to their clients.

He didn't want to lose and didn't want to do what was necessary to win.

Planners need to ensure that clients with self-directed IRAs are protected against a variety of scams.

David Strege's firm uses its unusual structure to help clients get more for less.

A new book, 'Practice Made (More) Perfect,' argues that workflow for advisor practices is more science than art.