Tag: Practice management

Consulting firm Mercer predicts advisers across retirement and wealth management channels will face some common challenges in 2015 as a lower-return environment takes hold.

A new career planning website from the CFP Board is designed to support both employers and job seekers in the financial advisory industry.

Charlie Pritzl has joined The Retirement Advantage Inc. (TRA) as quality control and training manager.

Morgan Stanley on Monday began advising certain wealth management clients that an employee had stolen partial client data.

ABD Insurance and Financial Services hired Brian Ashworth as vice president of its retirement services group.

After remaining level for the previous year, investors expressed rosier outlooks in the fourth quarter, according to a survey by John Hancock Financial.

Nasdaq announced that it will acquire smart beta and passive investing specialist Dorsey, Wright & Associates LLC.

The complexity of testing a plan can be one way to justify higher fees, says an ERISA plan administration business development specialist.

Research from Cerulli Associates predicts the combined asset marketshare of independent advisers will surpass that of wirehouse advisers by 2019.

Nearly half (49%) of respondents to the 6th annual New Year’s Resolution Survey from Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America say health/wellness is the most important focus...

Widely misunderstood and often not well represented, annuities still attract a lot of interest because they represent what most people desire most: fixed guaranteed income for life. 

U.S. Retirement Partners (USRP) reported that it has acquired Kades-Margolis Corporation (KMC), which will join USRP’s national network of 403(b) providers.

Ongoing fiduciary responsibility and spending money on former employees are two reasons to consider amending a plan to include automated rollovers, Millennium Trust says.

Acquisition of New York Life’s RPS business accelerates John Hancock’s expansion into the mid-case and large-case retirement plan markets.

An agreement signed with Pensionmark seals a partnership between the national firm and a St. Paul, Minnesota-based independent advisory practice, SevenHills Benefit Partners.

David Saunders and Victor Traub, III, have joined PSA Insurance & Financial Services.

Lincoln Financial Distributors, the wholesale distribution subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Group, appointed Tad Fifer as a national sales manager responsible for distribution of Lincoln’s annuity solutions.

An analysis from Hartford Funds finds U.S. investors are largely unaware of emerging digital financial advice models, and even practicing advisers don’t have much knowledge on the subject.

Some back-pocket phrases—holistic, retirement readiness and glide path—may seem tired not just to retirement plan participants, but even to retirement plan advisers themselves.

Many clients will fire an adviser that doesn’t return phone calls same day, according to research from Spectrem Group, but that’s far from the only client concern.