Military Clashes With GAO Over Life Sales Violation Reporting
By Allison BellOfficials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Department of Defense disagree about how much military base commanders should tell state regulators ...
July 01, 2005
Paul HixsonFinancial Management Professionals 4841 Ihles Road Lake Charles, Louisiana 70605 337-433-4334 www.fmprofessionals.com Year Practice Began: 1987 Number of advisors in firm: 7 Number of clients: 500 (approximately) Compensation method: fee-only Fee for managing assets:...
July 01, 2005
If You Have an Intimate Relationship . . .with a client . . . DO: Be open to evaluating its effect on your work performance Be sensitive to its impact on your relationships...
July 01, 2005
The Prospects for Convertible ArbTwo fundamentally opposed views on hedge fund performance are going head-to-head. According to one, convertible arbitrage is a hedge fund strategy that is a victim...
July 01, 2005
THE GLUCK REPORT, Part II: Has Advent Shuttered AdvisorMart?At a time when Web-based portfolio management software (PMS) seems to be gaining greater acceptance among independent advisors, Advent Software Inc. appears to have stopped...
July 01, 2005
To Learn More About Behavioral Finance . . .BOOKS Advances in Behavioral Finance by Richard Thaler (Russell Sage Foundation, 1993) Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein (John Wiley & Sons, 1996) Choices, Values,...
July 01, 2005
Defining Behavioral Finance TermsAnchoring. The tendency of investors to become attached to a specific price as the fair value of a holding. Attachment bias. Holding onto an investment for...
July 01, 2005
About The ManagerAs Chairman, CEO, and CIO of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., Frank E. Holmes manages $2.2 billion in assets in 13 no-load funds in the U.S....