Wealth management

By any measure, the first quarter of 2012 was a very good one for investors. Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the 5 best-performing Dow stocks so far this year.

Wealthy clients are more likely to be sued, but excess personal liability insurance doesn't have to cost a fortune.

A three-part plan that enables advisors to go beyond basic financial planning.

The chief executive officer of Foundation Source discusses the advantages of a knowledge of philanthropy.

Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the six firms that scored above the national average in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the six firms that scored above the national average of 774 points in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Not every present a taxable one, according to the IRS.

Raymond James managed to straddle both the RIA and employee channels, placing second in both.

You don’t have to act like Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross to close a sale. But you do have to know a little something about human nature and psychology. Here’s a preview of an upcoming story in our April issue called “The Art of the Close” by Rick Rummage.

What was supposed to be the day of its greatest celebration became the day of its greatest humiliation. Here's a blow-by-blow recap of how and why everything went so terribly awry and, perhaps, signs that the company designed for "making markets better" is righting itself.

Legacy expert attorneys Danielle and Andy Mayoras say planners with clients whose families are involved in this type of legal struggle over an elderly parent should keep in mind that there are two sides (at least) to every story, and allegations of a parent’s care or finances being compromised are not always easy to prove.

Want to see your revenue leap within 30 days? Focus on the clients who produce most of your revenue. In our upcoming issue of BIC, you can read consultant Todd Colbeck’s advice on how to segment your book of business to do just that. Meanwhile, here is a high-level overview.

A typical fee-based advisor undercharges clients by about $20,000 each year, according to a presentation on the PriceMetrix site.

For bank reps looking to advance their careers, there’s no better news than a promotion or a job offer that’s too good to refuse. Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were either promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility in recent weeks.

The advantages of having both an RIA and broker-dealer relationship include ownership of the business while having the support of a full service broker-dealer.

Running a planning practice takes you into a lot of chicken-and-egg situations, such as needing to have scale before you can get the tools you need to grow. Bob Veres has answers for RIAs starting out or struggling to grow their firms.

Here's an interactive slide show about how to deal with the numerous it-takes-money-to-make-money types of paradoxes you run into when trying to start up your own RIA firm.

The founder of Veritable, the country’s third-largest RIA, says his firm’s new partnership with wealth management giant Affiliated Managers Group is part of a broader effort to build a business that can last for generations.

Commerce Bank promoted a portfolio manager in Kansas City to vice president and market executive for its trust operation’s central Missouri region.

Affiliated Managers Group acquires the nation’s third-largest RIA and CEO Sean Healey says the Boston-based firm will be looking to make more deals down the road to bulk up its wealth management business.