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What top-performing investment strategists and portfolio managers are thinking about the latest market trends and how to build high-performing portfolios.
LPL Adds New Exec to Research Team
By Janet LevauxWith the planned purchase of three Pacific Life broker dealers with 2,200 advisors, LPL is on track to include more than 10,000 FAs. To better...
April 29, 2007
Developing The New Products Needed For Boomer Payout PhaseThe boomers are coming. The boomers are here. By this time, almost all the players appreciate that aging demographics in the United States call for ...
April 12, 2007
Strategists or Tacticians?The investment advisor world can be divided into many subsets. There are wealth managers and investment advisors; big firms and smaller firms; older firms and newer firms; sole practitioners and multi-principal shops. But one of the biggest differentiators is in the area of investment management: specifically, active (or tactical) vs....
April 02, 2007
A Better Mousetrap?Charles Schwab launched three new index funds April 2 that are based on fundamental indexes rather than cap-weighted indexes such as the S&P 500. Fundamentally weighted indexes base inclusion in the index on a company's sales, cash flow, dividends, and book value, rather than on market cap, P/E, or valuation,...
April 01, 2007
Bringing ETFs to 401(k)sIn mid-February, National Planning Corporation (NPC) announced the launch of a 401(k) retirement plan program designed to give small and mid-sized companies the ability to...
April 01, 2007
Upgrades-April 2007...First introduced in January, Fidelity Investments' new referral service, Wealth Advisor Solutions, will match high-net-worth investors with select RIAs who are Fidelity custody clients. Matches...
April 01, 2007
Right-Sized and CustomizedBoston is a Mecca of the money management industry, serving as headquarters for a fair number of mutual funds, broker-dealers and fund managers. This being...
April 01, 2007
Review Your ReviewBy now, you probably have received the performance numbers for the first quarter and are in the midst of setting up your appointments for your...