- DUE DILIGENCE: Merrill Edge on Hiring Binge, Gets One-Third of Clients From FA Referrals February 22, 2012Does Merrill Edge, Merrill Lynch’s brokerage, banking and financial advice platform for the mass affluent (those with $100,000 to $250,000 to invest), compete with Merrill Lynch financial advisors?
- YIELD OF DREAMS: No More Clownin’ Around - It’s a Zero Sum Game February 22, 2012In the spirit of fairness and objective journalism, I wanted to point you to an article that makes counter-arguments to our December 2011 cover story, “Is Tactical Investing Wall Street’s Next Clown Act?” “The Real Clowns,” is written by our friend Ken Solow, chief investment officer and senior partner with Pinnacle Advisory Group
- LETTER FROM DALLAS: Day three at T3 – A Fidelity Robot in the Hall February 22, 2012Despite the many predictions that the crowd would thin on a Saturday morning here on the last day of the Technology Tools for Today (T3) conference after a big night of revelry, advisors, hungry for more technology content, packed the opening keynote speeches.
- The Asian Market: Q&A with Aspiriant Co-founder Tim Kochis February 22, 2012The first time Tim Kochis went to Asia, he ended up the hospital. It was 1969, and the Marquette University grad was wounded in action on a tour of duty in Vietnam. He got a purple heart.
- New Social Behavioral Reports 2-21-12 February 21, 2012
- VON ALDO: Dow Theory Signals Caution; But Optimism Grow on Equities February 21, 2012Alrighty, equities are back, touching numbers not seen since, their 2007 highs. Small caps (Russell 2000 up by, as the WSJ aptly put it, an “eye–popping 36% since October) are on a run and no one cares.
- DUE DILIGENCE: Edward Jones Has an Edge at Training in an Industry that Stinks at it February 21, 2012Only about one out of every five rookies in the Wall Street brokerage business makes it through year two or three of a four-year training program. One firm found some tricks that work.
- LETTER FROM DALLAS: Day Two at T3 Conference – Going Mobile February 21, 2012
- Tips on Evaluating Financial Surveys February 21, 2012
- Commercial Mortgage REITs: Less Risk, Same Reward? February 17, 2012
- LIVE FROM DALLAS: Mobile Apps, Cloud Computing and Integration - Key Themes at Tech Conference for RIAs February 17, 2012In lockstep with the growth of the RIA industry is a growth in the innovation of tools to support these firms.
- Envestnet To Buy RIA Software Provider Tamarac February 17, 2012
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