Tag: Practice management

Next week we will launch our eighth annual search for the nation’s best retirement plan advisers. 

With a new suite of tools and support from The Principal Financial Group, financial advisers can help business owners develop sound business exit or succession plans.

Standard & Poor's has launched the S&P Factor Indices which seek to measure the risk premium inherent between asset classes and financial markets. 

A decline in number of practicing advisers threatens Baby Boomers' retirement security, a new Cerulli report asserts.

BlackRock, Inc. released research findings on financial advisers' perceptions of and impact from the May 6th market event known as the “Flash Crash.”  

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC (WFAFN) says it “expanding and realigning” its Supervision Team in anticipation of continued growth in its independent financial advisor...

The Retirement Income Solutions Enterprise (RISE) is offering a free interactive financial education tool and video to financial advisers.   

Securian Financial Group’s Fiduciary Clarity program offers advisers the means to help educate employers to manage their investment and administrative fiduciary responsibilities.

Black Diamond Performance Reporting announced that RIA industry veteran, Nancy Ma-Apfel, has joined the firm as Director of Client Service.

In this as, perhaps, many professional endeavors, it seems that the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.   

401(k) Rekon, a Wilmington, North Carolina-based provider of adviser research and education, has opened an office near Phoenix, Arizona, the company announced. 

American United Life Insurance Company (AUL), a OneAmerica company, has appointed James Gilligan to the position of regional sales director in the Orlando, Florida-based regional retirement services office.

The latest Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Quarterly finds that among those affluent individuals who work with a financial adviser in or outside the workplace, the majority indicate that...

New York Life Retirement Plan Services has appointed Joseph Stabnick as its new director of marketing, effective immediately.

Business owners looking to move on to a different life stage now have a new option. 

Genworth Financial Wealth Management (GFWM), a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, Inc., has hired Matthew Matrisian to build a suite of succession planning tools, resources and services for advisers.

If you’re a small business owner - and many advisers are - odds are you’re pretty happy about that decision. 

Securian Trust Company, N.A. announced that Sarah Monke was appointed president.