Finding Your Client’s Place on the Efficient Frontier
By Gil WeinreichModern Portfolio Theory plays a role in academic finance, but for Dave Basten of API Funds, MPT plays a unique role in investment practice.
February 20, 2015
SEC’s Gallagher: 4 Things White House Fiduciary Memo Got WrongThe White House memo supporting the DOL measure is "thinly veiled propaganda designed to generate support for a widely unpopular rulemaking," the SEC commissioner said.
February 19, 2015
LPL Beats Q4 Estimates, Tops 14,000 RepsEarnings improved 9% on strong asset growth and RIA-related results, as well as lower compensation costs.
February 18, 2015
Want to Lure Millennials? Forget ‘Retirement Planning’XY Planning Network co-founder Alan Moore, 27, talks with ThinkAdvisor about his generation, his monthly fee model, and why advisors should rethink "retirement."
February 18, 2015
United Capital Adds 23-Member Wealth Management TeamA Denver-based wealth management firm with $2 billion in AUM happily casts it lot with United Capital, becoming its biggest acquisition to date.
February 18, 2015
Fiduciaries to Pay $39M for Raiding Death Benefit Plans; Outcry Over DOL Rule ContinuesA federal court entered a $39.8 million judgment in favor of workers who participated in more than 400 death benefit plans.
February 18, 2015
A Different Approach to Recruiting: Lincoln Financial NetworkWere not going to go out and just recruit for purposes of recruiting, says Chris Flint, head of Advisor & Acquisition Strategies.
February 18, 2015
The Medium Is the Message, When the Subject Is Investor ProtectionThe Committee for the Fiduciary Standard suggests mainstream media have an important role in investor protection, but I wonder if the emphasis is misplaced.