Client Outreach
The latest news and advice about successful client communications, including the best methods and strategies for financial advisors.
Banking on Boomers
By Jane Wollman RusoffWhat does the retirement-income security strategist foresee? This enormously influential demographic will keep on making history -- big-time. Financial advisors, take careful note. "As they've grown up,...
March 01, 2008
Subprime ProphetGary Shilling meets me at the bar of the restaurant with a large plastic jar in his hands. Since developing a serious beekeeping hobby a...
February 29, 2008
New ETFs Weighted on Revenue, Not Market CapRevenueShares Investor Services of Paoli, Pa., has listed its series of RevenueShares ETFs on the New York Stock Exchange ARCA. RevenueShares ETFs, in a licensing arrangement with Standard & Poor's,
February 27, 2008
Merrill Taps McQuade to Head U.S. BanksMerrill Lynch says Eugene M. McQuade has been appointed vice chairman and president of its U.S. banking operations. This includes oversight of all U.S. banking operations, such as Lynch Bank USA (MLBU
February 27, 2008
Pershing Appoints Novak to Support TibergienKaren Novak is the new chief operating officer of Pershing Advisor Solutions and reports to Mark Tibergien, CEO of that business, Pershing has announced. Novak is replacing John Iachello, who recently
February 19, 2008
Investors Cap Boosts ResultsInvestors Capital Holdings of Lynnfield, Mass., which includes some 700-plus financial advisors, says it had revenues of more than $23 million in its fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2007, an i
February 11, 2008
Securities Jobs Stay in the BlackIn an act of gravity-defying levitation, the securities industry added 7,800 jobs recently against heavily revised government statistics for all sectors -- including securities and insurance job class
February 11, 2008
Incapital to Buy LaSalle from BofAIncapital LLC says it has struck a deal with the Bank of America to acquire LaSalle Broker Dealer Services Division; the purchase could be completed as early as March 30. "Corporate issuers, broker-de