Tag: Practice management

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.

Retirement solutions and financial services provider MullinTBG, a Prudential Financial Inc. company, added seven to its sales and client services lineup.

Financial wellness is getting more attention from plan advisers, according to speakers at a webinar by Financial Finesse, a provider of financial education services.

Admitting that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has resources “not nearly sufficient to the enormity and scope of the responsibility” it faces, SEC Chairman Mary Jo White...

A planned expansion of approximately 200 advisers will give TIAA-CREF a total of more than 650 advisers in its individual advisory services group by the end of 2014.

Independent financial advisers Romaine Macomb and Theresa Donatelli joined independent adviser group office Northstar Wealth Partners (NSWP) alongside Ellie Kasimir, who will continue as the pair’s retirement plan...

Think small retirement plans aren’t worth your time? If so, you may be missing out on big opportunities.

They have yet to get around to it. Some say they just do not need to. A substantial number of investors have not developed a financial plan, Nationwide...

Advisers eyeing small and midmarket nonprofits have a new option with Great-West Financial’s Premier and Custom Key 403(b) offerings.

A study indicates employers may be offsetting their matching contributions to manage cost increases from automatic enrollment into defined contribution (DC) retirement plans.

ERISA Fiduciary Advisors (EFA) affiliated with Retirement Plan Advisory Group (RPAG), the largest independent practice management firm in the country.