Is software that lets investors, and their advisors see all of thier accounts, no matter where they might be custodied a good thing or a bad thing. It's probably a good thing for everyone, and may just turn wealth management services on their ear someday.
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The key to generating real wealth for wealth managers may lie in their client's IRAs. By setting these accounts up properly, and ensuring tax deferral across two generations, millions and millions can be accumulated.
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Think the markets are rational? Think again. The burgeoning field of behavioral finance is debunking several myths about how investors behave and what this means for equities.
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First Merit Financial reconfigures itself to offer a wealth management solution
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In the early summber of 2003, investors were seeing something they hadn't for a very long time: stock market gains. Changes in the tax laws regarding capital gains, and a desire not to repeat the past leads to that most uncommon of Wall Street cries: Se
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In the wake of the "global settlement" -- the April 2003 agreement among 10 investment banking firms and the Securities and Exchange Commission -- brokers, advisors and investors soon will find lots more independent research reports on their desks.
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Handpicked: Separately Managed Accounts Can Offer Advantages Over Mutual Funds, but Watch Those Fees
As the popularity of mutual funds waned in response to a variety of factors, most notably perhaps the end of a product life cycle, Separately Managed Accounts caught fire. Spurred on by rapidly lowering investment minimums, assets in SMAs were closing in on $500 billion as 2003 came to a…
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With the December 4 jobs report delivering higher than expected job growth, a fed funds hike now seems all but certain Nobody agrees on whether hike is good or bad news and brings to mind Newton’s third law of motion: for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.…
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The short answer is probably not. This has nothing to do with you or your business. It has to do with statistics. The last time anyone counted, the rate of new business incorporation in the U.S. is about 565,000 incorporations per month or 6.8 million. The rate of institutional venture…
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There are some debates in finance that never go away. Does increasing tax rates increase or decrease tax revenue? Is stimulus good or bad for the economy? Then there’s this one: does an active or passive investment strategy result in a better performance. Personally, I feel the passive strategy advocates…
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