Investment Advisor December 2011
Cover Story
Retirement Reset
If you’ve been an advisor for any length of time, you’ve heard Ken Dychtwald speak.
Features
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Hiding in Plain Sight
The past decade has not been kind to most equity investors and their advisors.
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Precious Metal
Melissa Sayer, a resident of Westfield, N.J., was dying to get an iPad.
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The Long and Short of Long-Short Funds
At the Morningstar Investor Conference in 2006, one breakout session panelist noted the 40 long-short funds in existence, predicting the number would increase tenfold in the next two years.
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Schwab's Deep Impact
If you want sound bites, Schwab Impact 2011 in San Francisco had them.
Beginnings
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Kahneman’s Close-Up
Reading the December issue of Vanity Fair, I came across a curious find.
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Marty Cohen on Recent REIT Performance
We had a simple question for Marty Cohen: “What the heck is going on in the REIT space?”
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Is Another 2008 Imminent for Global Equities?
Given the dramatic market volatility we have seen over the past few months, we thought it wise to provide our take on what is driving the turbulence, especially in light of the short-term surge in the U.S. dollar and the declines in commodity-related investments.
Columns
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Buyer’s Remorse
Much has been written about sellers seeking liquidity or succession solutions, but the real story of the day is the amount of money chasing after a small pool of advisory firms and broker-dealers.
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Internal Changes at SEC’s Exam Division
As uncertainty remains in the debate over whether an SRO should oversee advisors—and a new option of using outside auditors for advisor exams in lieu of an SRO was recently thrown into the mix—changes are afoot within the SEC’s exam division.
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Reality Check
I was recently accused by one of my friends of being a “numbers guy,” which, as a former philosophy major and professional journalist, I found quite amusing.
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Owner’s Guilt: Manage It, Before It Manages You
My October column, “Stumbling on Happiness,” generated a lot of chatter on Twitter and in emails, leading me to believe that the problem of owner’s guilt is a lot more prevalent than I thought.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
During nearly 40 years as a psychotherapist, I’ve tried to help people learn to love themselves and treat themselves well in the deepest sense.
Conclusions
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New Cost Basis Reporting Best Practices
We have almost completed our first year under the IRS’s new cost basis regulations and reporting requirements.
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Seven Easy Rules for a Safe Policies and Procedures Manual
Compliance doesn’t have to be hard, but some advisors insist on making it so. These seven tips, starting with reading your own documents, will make it easy.
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How to Host Memorable Client Events
For financial advisors, there’s nothing quite like a spontaneous referral from a satisfied client.
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Use Global Fixed Income to Improve Diversification
Today, there are more opportunities for individual and institutional investors alike, allowing them to gain access to the global fixed income universe.
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10 Steps to Bulletproof Your Practice
As a recruiting firm, we deal with compliance issues so frequently that, put in college terms, I majored in recruiting and minored in compliance.
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Grow Your Business With Social Media
In my years of experience working with investment advisors, the No. 1 way new clients are acquired has consistently been through referrals.
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Class Dismissed
The Community Living Assistance Services and Support program, also known as the CLASS Act, was part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obama’s effort at health care reform.
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A Better Day
Imagine you’re given the choice of two different times to be a stock market investor.
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Alternatives and Advisors
“RIAs perform the most sophisticated due diligence,” Marc Zeitoun of Guggenheim flatly stated in a conversation during the Schwab Impact conference in San Francisco.
Sidebar Stories
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Transcending the Zoo Within You
When people research investments, the result can be misleading if they only do a logical analysis.
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