Wealth management

The uncertainty is ‘unbelievably disruptive’ for advisors at a time when clients are beginning to have more confidence in the markets and investing. Likely candidates to buy could include Cetera and Lincoln Financial, observers say.

Here's how advisors, brokers and firms can measure their return on investment in social media.

Here is a succinct list of ingredients for advisors and brokers who want to get seriously involved in social media.

If you’re getting serious about social media, here’s the regulatory landscape, as of March 2012.

Kitces is co-author of The Annuity Advisor, and is a contributor to Financial Planning magazine, as well as a string of major consumer publications.

Legacy expert attorneys Andy and Danielle Mayoras – along with everyone else – have now had a chance to take a look at Whitney Houston’s will. That the deceased music superstar opted for a will rather a living trust points to some shortcomings in her overall estate planning strategy.

Here's an interactive slide show detailing some favorite (mainly fixed-income) techniques seven planners are using to boost returns in client portfolios:

If an industry-wide fiduciary standard is adopted, what might the practicalities of meeting that standard be? Citi’s financial services unit has some possible technology-based answers to this question.

Chicago-based brokerage and investment advisory firm David A. Noyes has hired an executive away from Fifth Third Bank to join the ranks of its wealth advisors as a vice president.

Given uncertainty around soon-to-expire tax cuts, what can advisors do now? Here's an interactive slide show in which five planners discuss some top tax strategies.

During the transition, Ibis plans to retain its 83 client relationships representing $300 million in assets under management.

San Diego-based Planner William Blanton and his team at Vintage Wealth Capital Management brought their $170 million book of business to Washington Wealth Management this week, in the latest addition to the rapidly growing Middleburg, Va.-based RIA.

Wall Street Horizon said it will send dates and date changes “within 1,000 milliseconds” of announcement. Deutsche Boerse units extend pooling market to short-term funding. New York Portfolio Clearing launched a Portfolio Risk Interactive Margin Estimator. Credit Suisse releases a “calendar roll” algorithm for fixed-income trading. LCH.Clearnet gets a “nonobjection” to its foreign exchange clearing plan.

Legacy expert attorneys Andy and Danielle Mayoras say the pop star's been very busy lately but it remains unclear what – if any – decisions she’s making herself and illustrates the importance of informed legal and estate planning regardless of your station in life.

Symetra Investment Services has hired a new director of business development away from Lincoln Financial Network, the retail sales and financial planning affiliates of Lincoln Financial Group.

The new hire, Joseph Zidle, guided investing strategy for almost $2 trillion in individual investor assets in his prior role.

“Before allowing our reps to use social media, we needed a technology solution to handle our complex regulatory needs,” says Chad Oppedal, assistant director of compliance for the Principal Financial Group.

The consolidated audit trail of orders placed and matched on the nation’s stock markets should cost a ‘fraction’ of what the SEC has estimated, according to a financial data expert and author speaking at TradeTech 2012 conference in New York.

Symetra Investment Services, Inc., the broker-dealer registered investment advisor arm of Symetra Financial Corporation, has hired John Forrest to serve as director of business development, responsible for managing relationships, development advisors and managing sales.

More and more often, RIAs are outsourcing certain functions so they can spend more time with clients and stay competitive, according to the firm.