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JourneyGuide: A New Income Planning Tool from Ash Brokerage

By Kerry Pechter Fri, Oct 20, 2017

'We’re targeting a ‘soft launch’ in early November... followed with an official market release about a month later,” said Derek Trimble, CEO of JourneyGuide, a spin-off from Fort Wayne,...

Published October 19, 2017

Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing

By Kerry Pechter Wed, Oct 4, 2017

Fee-based indexed annuities have generous crediting terms. But unless fee-based advisors can decide how to bill clients for holding such a safe, low-maintenance product, they may not recommend the...

Published October 5, 2017

Trend toward centralized investment advice will continue: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Thu, Sep 14, 2017

Advisors at wirehouses and national broker-dealers will be do less investment management and focus more on client relationship-building and financial planning, explains Tom O'Shea, associate director at Cerulli.

Published September 14, 2017

Advisors could lose autonomy as a result of regulation: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Thu, Aug 3, 2017

Asking CFP, CIMA or CFA advisors to outsource portfolio construction and management to a third party is tantamount to questioning their purpose in life,' said new research from Cerulli...

Published August 3, 2017

Roll Over and Play Fair

By Editorial Staff Thu, May 18, 2017

The LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute's study of participant behavior around rollovers comes at a time when financial advisors need to talk about rollovers more carefully than in the past....

Published May 18, 2017

Savings Pros Meet in City of Big Spenders

By Kerry Pechter Tue, Mar 21, 2017

At the NAPA 401k Summit in Las Vegas this week, nearly 2,000 plan sponsor advisors et al worried about policy threats to their industry. At nearby slots and gaming...

Published March 23, 2017

Did your active fund underperform? Maybe a rich kid manages it

By Editorial Staff Thu, Dec 8, 2016

'Managers from families in the top quintile of wealth underperformed managers in the bottom quintile by 2.16% per year,' according to a study by economists at the University of...

Published December 8, 2016

Cambridge advisors will use the BIC, accept “levelized” commissions

By Editorial Staff Thu, Nov 3, 2016

Like Raymond James and Morgan Stanley—but unlike Merrill Lynch—Cambridge will let commission-based advisors serve retirement clients.

Published November 3, 2016

Advisors: Your next prospect could be a “mystery shopper”

By Editorial Staff

A unit of Fidelity Investments has engaged real investors—not actors—to pose as typical prospects, interact with financial advisors, and then report their levels of satisfaction with the sales process...

Published November 3, 2016

Eleven firms, and their new DOL-related policies

By Editorial Staff Thu, Oct 27, 2016

A quick review of changes at LPL, Great American Life, Edward Jones, Nationwide, State Farm, Jackson National Life, Merrill Lynch, Commonwealth Financial, Morgan Stanley and Ameriprise in response to...

Published October 28, 2016

A Word to the Wise Advisor

By Kerry Pechter Fri, Oct 21, 2016

At the Money Management Institute Fall Solutions conference in Boston this week, one of the presentations focused on the right and wrong words to use when explaining the impact...

Published October 21, 2016

Broker-dealers expect DOL rule to prompt exodus of advisors: LIMRA

By Editorial Staff Thu, Sep 29, 2016

“This is a transformational event in the financial services market,” said Kathy Krozel, research director, LIMRA Distribution Research.

Published September 29, 2016

Off the Grid

By Kerry Pechter Wed, Jul 13, 2016

As the DOL rule changes the role of the employee-advisor, the mode of compensating and incentivizing advisors may need to evolve. And that may spell changes in the almighty...

Published July 21, 2016

MassMutual completes purchase of MetLife’s U.S. retail advisor force

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jul 7, 2016

The acquisition significantly expands MassMutual's footprint in the U.S. It will grow to more than 9,200 financial professionals in more than 2,000 offices nationwide, increasing 60% and 45%, respectively.

Published July 8, 2016

Advisors must distinguish themselves from robots: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Fri, Apr 15, 2016

'As the ‘robo’ threat stirs conversations about the cost of advice, it is more important than ever for advisors to articulate their value,' said the latest edition of The...

Published April 15, 2016

LPL announces adaptations to impending DOL fiduciary rule

By Editorial Staff Thu, Mar 17, 2016

We are 'making changes to our platform and capabilities that we believe will help advisors grow their practices and support more investors in need of financial advice," said LPL's...

Published March 17, 2016

MassMutual pays $165 million for MetLife’s captive agent force and retail operation

By Editorial Staff Thu, Mar 3, 2016

On a combined basis, MSI and MassMutual’s existing broker-dealer, MML Investors Services, LLC, will be among the nation’s largest insurance company-owned broker-dealers.

Published March 3, 2016

The RICP, as Seen By Three Graduates of the Program

By Editorial Staff Thu, Feb 18, 2016

David W. Smiley, CFP, RICP, of Oxford Asset Management in Durango, CO, Troy Miller, RICP, of Hilliard Lyons in Louisville, KY, and Curtis Cloke, CLTC, RICP, owner of Thrive...

Published February 18, 2016

Insurance U. Becomes Retirement U.

By Kerry Pechter Wed, Feb 17, 2016

Conceived by Solomon Huebner (pictured in the 1950s) to give life insurance salesmen a professional gloss, The American College has, with money from New York Life, become Retirement Income...

Published February 18, 2016

Advisors: How to Outsmart the Smartphone

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Feb 11, 2016

The shorthand message to registered investment advisors at the Technology Tools for Today (T3) conference in chilly Fort Lauderdale this week: Don't end up as a Yellow Cab in...

Published February 11, 2016

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