Tag: Practice management

Bank of America is moving its $19 billion defined contribution (DC) plan, currently with Fidelity, to the Merrill Lynch platform.

Plan advisers should stress the importance of communication and planning, signaling that retirement is a time of empowerment—not a dismal single life event.

Householder Group, a network of 40 independent hybrid advisory practices, joined LPL Financial’s suite of broker/dealer and registered investment adviser (RIA) custodial platforms.

Complicated, non-intuitive terminology is a barrier to plan participation, endangering the retirement security of large numbers of Americans.

Institutional investment data and analytics provider eVestment issued a pair of retooled solutions for managing traditional and alternative investment strategies.

The DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE Fund uses the long-term stock valuation principles of Nobel Prize-winning Yale economics professor Robert Shiller.  

The House voted Tuesday to pass the Retail Investor Protection Act, which would delay any fiduciary updates issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) or the Securities and...

As rising debt levels push aside retirement savings, access to financial education and advice may be part of the solution.

ING Financial Partners (IFP), a registered broker/dealer and one of ING U.S.’s component companies, named Thomas Halloran as the firm’s president, effective November 18.

During National Save for Retirement Week, advisers might meet with their plan sponsors to consider advice for plan participants, who generally take positive action afterwards.

Two-thirds of advisers lack succession plans, Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services found.

WealthStation CompAct is SunGard’s financial planning tool that lets advisers produce results-based, holistic financial plans quickly, simply and interactively.

A personal financial planning website shows people how they can walk through their financial lives, starting with a career in their 20s all the way through retirement.

Investors who are younger and have less wealth are content with their financial advisers, but also quicker to leave them, according to Spectrem Group research.

A report from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) scrutinizes  conflicts of interest in the broker/dealer industry to highlight effective practices to eradicate such conflicts.

Young workers with small balances and owners of Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are likelier than other IRA owners to make “extreme” allocations to either stocks or money,...

 Motivating someone to plan for an event that is years or even decades away is difficult.

To advisers, it’s poor money habits. To sponsors, it’s inadequate participant engagement in the workplace retirement plan. But the result is the same: room for improvement.

Retirement plan and investment consulting firm Plan Sponsor Advisors (PSA) hired Gina Gurgiolo as a senior investment consultant. 

Beyond the company website, an asset manager’s digital presence is critical, and three in five advisers judge asset managers by their Internet activity.