Practice Management

A more volatile market and nervous investors appear to be taking more time from their financial advisers.

Trying to work with clients about investment details? Try using red materials. Developing creative strategies with your team? Go with blue.

The details of how the joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney will play out are yet to unfold, but retirement plan advisers seem optimistic about the...

Independent broker/dealers (IBDs) say recruiting is important—but the competition for advisers is high.

If you are looking for mutual fund Web sites that are useful in a particular area for advisers, a new report offers some insight.

In order to adjust with the changing landscape as Baby Boomers retire, financial advisers will likely take on a broader role and compete with a wider array of...

PLANSPONSOR has announced the finalists for its annual Retirement Plan Adviser and Adviser Team of the Year awards.

Recent market setbacks have led affluent retirees to show greater interest in receiving a guaranteed income stream, according to a survey by MFS Investment Management.

Advisers plan to address wealth preservation and asset allocation with clients, rather than retirement planning in 2009.

Financial advisers are a mobile bunch and increasingly want access to client data and other services from their mobile phones.

The growing popularity of automatic enrollment in defined contribution plans – and target-date default choices in those plans – should fuel a surge in retirement plan assets, according...

If you’re looking for a way to help a client's 401(k) go green, an unusual coalition has a new idea.

New reports from the Vanguard Center for Retirement Research indicate American workers increasingly need help to generate a sustainable income stream in retirement and a variety of solutions...

During the financial crisis, millionaires did not express satisfaction with their advisers’ performance, but independent advisers fared better, a SpectremGroup study found.

Greater relationship size doesn’t necessarily mean greater profitability for high-net-worth (HNW) advisers, according to Cerulli Associates.

Despite a challenging 2008, independent advisers surveyed in an SEI Quick Poll are positive about success in the coming year.

As 403(b) plan sponsors and advisers have prepared for new Internal Revenue Services regulations in effect as of January 1, no doubt communications with participants about the new...

Both Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney have trimmed their payout amounts for lower producers.

As of mid-October, only about 20% of high net worth investors (HNW) had contacted their current investment adviser for advice about the financial crisis, new research says.

Retirement plan advisers, like the adviser industry as a whole, will be driven by regulatory trends and see a move toward fee-based compensation, according to TowerGroup.