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Caveat Vendor
By Jane Wollman RusoffIt began with nothing but the best intentions: Financial advisors wanting to reap higher yields for their retail clients -- and in the process also...
April 01, 2008
Learning the ABCs of ETFsFew could have predicted that the rise of exchange-traded funds as mainstream investment products would happen so swiftly. As index funds that trade like stocks,...
April 01, 2008
Talking TurbulenceWhat did you do to communicate with your clients during the market downturn earlier this year? If you answered "nothing," or had to stop and...
April 01, 2008
More than Just ClearingFinancial advisors are quick to call theirs a people-to-people business; and since they're out on the front lines, that's completely correct. But now some traditionally backstage...
April 01, 2008
The Go-Go SixtiesFor a decade that would be remembered as Wall Street's "go-go years," the 1960s began in an unpromising way. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which...
April 01, 2008
Excellent PresentationI have known many outstanding investors who have not survived as financial advisors. Perhaps in a subsequent business life, they will be reincarnated as quants...
April 01, 2008
Going the Extra MileI catch up with Joe Calloway in the hotel lobby during OneVoice, the 2008 Broker-Dealer Conference organized by the Financial Services Institute. A busy man...
April 01, 2008
Stagflation NationAbout a year ago, I was interviewing the head of a New York City-based broker-dealer for my Research column. The conversation turned to inflation --...