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Road to “ruin” should be less traveled: Milevsky

By Editorial Staff Thu, Feb 4, 2016

Finance professor and decumulation expert Moshe Milevsky, writing in an upcoming issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, thinks that the practice of using "probabilities of ruin" when creating an...

Published February 4, 2016

Born to be vetoed: Two more House bills target DOL proposal

By Editorial Staff

The bills emerging from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce would maintain the status quo by requiring disclosure of, not elimination of, conflicts of interest in sales...

Published February 4, 2016

Five lessons for advisors from Vanguard CEO

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jan 28, 2016

"Financial advice is having a moment," Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb said in a release. "The best advisors are seizing this moment to tell their story."

Published January 28, 2016

Fidelity partners with Envestnet on plan advisor platform

By Editorial Staff Thu, Oct 29, 2015

The new workstation which will provide advisory firms access to retirement plan data and service providers in one central location, will be accessible via single sign-on through Fidelity’s WealthCentral...

Published October 29, 2015

Wisdom from Advisors to the ‘One Percent’

By Kerry Pechter Wed, Oct 28, 2015

To satisfy super-rich clients, be as inventive as Ray Croc when he invented the 15-cent hamburger, advisors at UBS, Merrill Lynch and Manchester Capital Management told members of the...

Published October 29, 2015

Assets of Money Market Institute firms rise to $4.2 trillion

By Editorial Staff Thu, Sep 24, 2015

The "representative as portfolio manager" continues to be the fastest-growing model within the wealth management industry, according to a new report from the Money Market Institute.

Published September 24, 2015

DOL proposal could “revamp” advisor business practices: Fitch

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jul 9, 2015

Fitch analysts suggested in a new report that the DOL proposals “could curb the willingness of agents to promote complex and higher fee products to market,”...

Published July 9, 2015

John Hancock and LPL in participant advice pact

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jul 2, 2015

Launched by LPL in 2014, the Employee Advice Solution tool can deliver personalized participant advice through an online service that collects financial information about a participant.

Published July 2, 2015

SEC and FINRA publish study of sales to seniors at BDs

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jun 25, 2015

With respect to variable annuities, the SEC and FINRA said they found evidence of potentially unsuitable sales to seniors at 34% of the 44 broker-dealers they examined.

Published June 25, 2015

In-Discretionary Accounts

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Jun 11, 2015

Investment performance of popular “Rep-as-Portfolio-Manager" accounts lags direct-sold packaged portfolios, say analysts at Cerulli Associates and Fuse-Research.

Published June 11, 2015

The next-gen adviser: Half person, half machine

By Kerry Pechter Thu, May 14, 2015

What will retirement advice look like in the future: Will advisers use the digital advisory channel, or will the digital advisory channel use them? A new report from Celent...

Published May 14, 2015

With acquisition, Envestnet arms itself against robo-advice threat

By Editorial Staff Tue, Mar 3, 2015

“Upside helps financial advisors compete against other digital advisors, or ‘robo advisors,’ by leveraging technology and algorithms to advise, manage, and serve clients,” an Envestnet release said.

Published March 5, 2015

Live, from NY: Daniel Kahneman

By Kerry Pechter Fri, Feb 27, 2015

Kahneman, co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for his work on behavioral finance and author of the best-seller, 'Thinking Fast and Slow,' spoke with informative grace and humor at the...

Published March 5, 2015

UBS Looks at Longevity and Annuities

By Kerry Pechter Wed, Feb 25, 2015

For years, wealth managers have paid little attention to longevity risk or annuities. But times are changing, and even wirehouses like UBS are at least talking the longevity talk....

Published February 26, 2015

Fidelity Sees ‘Robo-Advice’ at Its Heels, and in its Future

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Feb 5, 2015

'From eMoney they’re getting the retail and advisor aggregation tool and the client portals; that is, the user experience part, where the industry is playing catch-up with the...

Published February 5, 2015

Pershing to roll out enhanced DC platform for plan distributors

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jan 22, 2015

Currently at about $6.6 trillion, DC assets are expected to increase by five to six percent per year through 2019, Pershing said. Rollover IRA assets are expected to exceed...

Published January 22, 2015

Independent advisors will manage more than wirehouses by 2019: Cerulli

By Editorial Staff Thu, Jan 15, 2015

“More than two-thirds of advisors indicate they would prefer the independent broker/dealer, registered investment advisor, or dually registered models if they decided to leave their current firms,” said...

Published January 15, 2015

Will a Robo-Advisor Eat Your Lunch?

By Kerry Pechter Thu, Nov 13, 2014

"It comes down to this: ‘How much personalized service am I willing to give up to save 75 basis points a year?” said Jack Waymire about the robo-advisors. He...

Published November 13, 2014

Two Robo-Advisors, Two Income Strategies

By Kerry Pechter Mon, Nov 10, 2014

Two robo-advisors, Betterment.com and SigFig.com, have retirement income generating functionalities. But are they robust enough to put an advisor with retirement income training out of work? Read and judge...

Published November 13, 2014

A New Robo-Advisor Eyes the 401(k) Space

By Kerry Pechter Wed, Oct 8, 2014

"blooom is like a dietician who doesn’t just give you advice on how to eat. It’s like a dietician who actually drives to your store, does your grocery shopping...

Published October 9, 2014

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