February 1, 2010
Cover Story
Sweating The CFP
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Jerry Gleeson
Think the CFP Exam is Hard? Just wait until next year. Why the designation is worth the cost and effort. ...
Features
All In The Family
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Christina Mucciolo
Family teams are common in the wealth management industry and getting more so. Hiring family members can be an easy solution to finding a trustworthy partner and a successor. But there are drawbacks....
Aiming High
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Halah Touryalai
Ameriprise has long been dismissed, by some, as a place for unsophisticated advisors to push proprietary products. A recent change in strategy may challenge that stubborn stereotype. ...
Investing
Funds for the Nervous
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Stan Luxenberg
To coax nervous investors into the markets, consider some of these quirky, yet risk-averse, funds....
The Price Is Not (always) Right
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Brad Zigler
Fundamental index ETFs have been around for nearly five years now. Have they lived up to their claims that they avoid overpriced stocks?...
Lifting the Curtain
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David Geracioti
Keith McCullough's book, Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager (Wiley; January 2010), is a short but interesting tale of a hayseed from Western Ontario who skated...
The Curtain Lifted
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Hedge funds may be secretive, but alternative mutual funds, their (distant) cousins, are not....
The Practice
Cold Calling Is Back
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Anne Field
If you visit William Mundy at his office, chances are good you'll find him with his ear pressed to the phone, pitching his services to people...
Navigating The Estate Tax Void
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Kevin McKinley
A few good moves you can make for clients in today's uncertain environment....
Planning Is Everything
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Mindy Diamond
Once you have decided to switch firms, it is essential that you know exactly what you need to do and how you are going to do it....
Raise Your Game: Become a Knowledge Worker
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Matt Oechsli
Becoming a knowledge worker is no easy task, but the reward is that you will double or triple your productivity....
Opinion
The SEC Needs to Realign Priorities
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, David A. Geracioti, Editor-In-Chief
How will new financial regulations wending their way through Congress affect individual retail financial advisors and broker/dealers, independent or otherwise? ...
Building a Playbook
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Lisa A. Cohen
Asset managers-and FAs too-tend to create business strategies in good times but not in bad. Here is the problem with that....
Getting Smart About Insurance
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Insurance may be a key part of a well-designed financial plan, but your clients don't know it....
Some Expense-ive Lessons
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Bill Singer
Fudging your expense records has regulatory consequences....
The Puzzler #17
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By John Kador
Think you're smart? Try these brainteasers that recruiters use in actual job interviews....
REPorts
60 Seconds
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Kristen French
with Paul Hickey of Bespoke Investment Group on China ADR performance. ...
M&A Rebound
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Halah Touryalai
RIAs are expected to start doing deals again in 2010, as valuations and cash flows pick up....
China ADRs Soar
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Kristen French
The graph below measures the performance of the Shanghai Composite Index against a basket of Chinese ADRs selected by Bespoke Investment from Jan. 2,...
SRI Funds Beat The Market
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Christina Mucciolo
