Practice management

Industry veterans, Brent Norman and Erik Lawrence, formerly with UBS, will work with John Noble, a managing director of Paulson Wealth Advisors, in the expansion of Paulson’s investment advisory firm throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Middle class Americans who work with planners trust their own planner despite deep distrust of the financial services industry

Financial services firms are being specifically targeted in Web attacks by "criminal elements," according to Edward Powers, a principal at Deloitte & Touche. Those attackers “know what assets they’re going after and they’re going after you in a very orchestrated way,’’ he said at a meeting of the Wall Street Technology Association.

Women are not only becoming more responsible for the finances in their own homes, but they are passing on their knowledge to their own parents.

Anyone looking for the Treasury Secretary to endorse a specific approach to the future of the GSEs was surely disappointed by his testimony Tuesday, yet much could still be gleaned.

When the call comes from compliance that your branch examination is imminent, some advisors decide it’s time to take a vacation while others take the vapors. But branch exams should not be stressful or painful – if you follow these basic steps and integrate them into your practice.

A pair of prominent financial news agencies are teaming up with public relations and marketing firm Cognito to host a pair of soup-to-nuts events that will delve into what financial services professionals want and need to know about using social media in their practices.

Sam Pyle and Shauywn Smith joined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney from Merrill Lynch.

Why not tap into your affinity with clients to create a powerful marketing message, and solidify your hold on that group?

Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust hired Paul C. Guidone to be its chief investment officer.

House Financial Services Committee chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., is warning the Securities and Exchange Commission that he does not support its proposed rules for a municipal advisor registration system because they are too broad and do not reflect congressional intent.

UBS Wealth Management hired Alexander S. Friedman as chief investment officer, while also filling out his team with former White House staff staffer Mona Sutphen and alternative investment manager Mark Haefele.

Pahnke and his team, the Pahnke Wealth Management Group, join from Robert W. Baird.

The tool lets retail investors see how their portfolio is performing against benchmarks and how much risk they have taken.

Independent financial advisors say that improving efficiency and time management is a goal for 2011, and carriers can help them achieve it.

A new survey of high-net-worth investors with more than $2 million in investable assets found that most expect to at least triple their net worth in the next decade, a sure sign that the affluent expect the market's recent momentum to continue for the foreseeable future.

To help financial advisors and firms jumpstart their social media endeavors without running afoul of FINRA regulations, LIMRA and social middleware firm Socialware this week rolled out "Insight: Advisor Series," a new social media training program specifically designed to help guide them through the potential legal and cultural landmines presented by social networking sites and platforms.

Only 10% of Americans with $5 million to $25 million in investable assets described themselves as “very wealthy” in a recent survey by the Spectrem Group.

In the past 11 years, we’ve had two major bear markets and experienced the near collapse of the world financial system. Not surprisingly, many advisors lost revenue, lost clients and some even lost confidence in their ability to protect their clients’ assets during times of turmoil. Yet during this 11-year period of global upheaval, a select group of advisors prospered.

In an effort to prevent a recurrence of past abuses by broker's brokers, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has issued a new draft rule that details what they must do to comply with pricing, fair-dealing, and transaction rules.