Investment Advisor July 2006

Cover Story

  • Already There

    By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne

    Defining wealth management. It's a task that many advisors and industry officials have taken on as the term--and the practice--has reached the height of its...

Features

  • Contact Point

    By Lauren Barack

    Ideally, Gary Zaugg would chat with his computer, have it input client notes, and file appropriate details into the correct folders--all without the Virginia Beach,...

  • Passing the Baton

    By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne

    What's the secret strategy for a fund that holds the distinction of 15 consecutive years of positive total returns? "We think like financial planners," says...

Beginnings

  • Ticked Off About TIC

    By Staff Writer

    Seth Pearson's article, "The Next Investment Scandal" (IA Soapbox, June 2006), contains several inaccuracies and overstatements about the TIC (tenants-in-common) industry. By using the word scandal,...

  • The Currency Conundrum

    By Staff Writer

    As if investors don't have enough to worry about as they wrestle with the proper allocation of stocks, bonds, commodities, and hedge funds, and philosophical...

  • Hedge Funds Favor Diversification

    By Staff Writer

    In the hunt for opportunities in an increasingly crowded space, hedge fund managers are seeking to broaden their strategic options as well as their geographic...

  • Steady At The Helm in Rough Seas

    By Staff Writer

    Following a volatile but vertical course, international stocks have rocketed upward over the last decade, with a sustained rise since March 2003. Global demand for...

  • Power of the People

    By Maya Ivanova

    You may not realize it, but at the end of each day some of your firm's most valuable assets disappear right out from under your...

  • Tackling the Challenges

    By James J. Green, AdvisorOne

    What are the biggest challenges facing the profession in the years ahead? According to the 12 members of the IA Leaders' Council, they are finding...

  • Show Me, Show Them

    By James J. Green, AdvisorOne

    The easy thing to say about Stuart Zimmerman is that he's an advocate for CPAs doing financial planning. It's easy because he's prone to say...

  • NUMEROLOGY

    By Staff Writer

    The College Savings Foundation released a report conducted by Financial Research Corporation which found that assets in 529 college savings plans rose to an estimated...

  • GROUP THINK

    By Staff Writer

    Starting July 1, NAPFA will launch its "Focus on Fiduciary" campaign, a consumer education program that is being supported by the NAPFA Consumer Education Foundation,...

  • CHANGES

    By Staff Writer

    The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Susan Ferris Wyderko, director of the Office of Investor Education and Assistance, will leave the Commission. She will...

  • UPGRADES

    By Staff Writer

    During its annual conference, Pershing LLC announced healthy growth in the number of RIAs custodying client assets and trust accounts through its Pershing Advisor Solutions...

  • ASSET ALLOCATION

    By Staff Writer

    To learn this month's recommended asset allocations of Investment Advisor's panel of distinguished economists and money managers, click here

  • On Responsibility

    By Staff Writer

    I found myself dining during the recent Pershing conference next to a gentleman who is an executive at a Midwestern broker/dealer. This mid-size B/D has...

Columns

  • Manage Your Boss

    By Mark Tibergien

    After a particularly arduous day with an advisor who was tormented by his inability to have constructive interactions with his staff, I mindlessly clicked through...

  • Just the Facts

    By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne, Bob Clark, AdvisorOne

    If you're a data nerd like me, I've got a book for you: Freakonomics by Steven Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago, and...

  • Providing More Than a Commodity

    By Susan L. Hirshman

    Last month we introduced research conducted by JPMorgan regarding clients' passion points, and talked about how you can tap into them to grow your business....

  • Extension Explication

    By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne

    While a number of the provisions in the recently passed $70 billion tax package, the "Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005," will have...

  • Unreal Estate

    By Olivia Mellan

    For many clients, emotions around home and property aren't gone with the wind. Many of us grew up believing that owning a place of our...

  • Positive Party

    By Angie Herbers

    In 1952, Norman Vincent Peale suggested that we all can profoundly affect our own productivity in his blockbuster book, The Power of Positive Thinking. For...

Conclusions

Sidebar Stories

  • Facilitating Wealth Management

    By Staff Writer

    If the number of advisors practicing wealth management is growing, so is the number of companies looking to help them practice it successfully. With that...

  • Lenox Advisors, Inc

    By Staff Writer

    530 Fifth Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 536-8700 Fax: (212) 536-6014 www.lenoxadvisors.com Year firm started: 2000 Number of partners in firm: 6 AUM: $1 billion Compensation method: Annual financial...

  • Picking Your Partners

    By Staff Writer

    A popular notion is that advisors must establish a niche in order to distinguish themselves from competitors. Carstens says while finding a niche helps, advisors...

  • Pareto Principle

    By Staff Writer

    Its deal with Cadaret, Grant to customize its existing CRM software was the first of its kind for the nearly six-year-old firm Pareto Systems, says...

  • About the Managers

    By Staff Writer

    After more than three decades with T. Rowe Price, Stephen Boesel, 62, VP of T. Rowe Price Group, and T. Rowe Price Associates, will gradually...

  • Team Player

    By Staff Writer

    Stuart Zimmerman WILLINGLY gives credit to his partners for the success of the firms they've built. Zimmerman is particularly proud of Buckingham's zeal for academic...

  • Behind the Numbers, with Sam Stovall

    By Staff Writer

    According to sam Stovall, S&P's chief investment strategist, it's not time to be bearish on the market just yet. "Our feeling is that the correction...

  • Mark's Rules on How to Handle Bosses

    By Staff Writer

    If you have a problem with somebody, deal with them directly instead of triangulating with a third party. If you feel you are being...

  • The Silver Lining

    By Staff Writer

    Freakonomics research isn't all about revealing the darker side of human behavior. Consider this analysis of Paul Feldman's bagel business. Feldman was an economist in...

  • Trading Up, at a Cost

    By Staff Writer

    We live in an emotionally adolescent culture that focuses mainly on short-term solutions. Many of us are not well trained in delaying gratification. We don't...

  • Assessing Employees Effectively

    By Staff Writer

    An effective performance evaluation will assess all planning employees in the following nine areas of development, weighted to emphasize the areas most important to each...

  • Client Archetypes

    By Staff Writer

    The Goodlife person's passions are driven by pleasure, exclusivity and experiences. Steeped in the belief that "money exists to use and enjoy," Goodlife people have...

  • Closing a Loophole

    By Staff Writer

    The IRS was concerned that if someone established a charitable remainder annuity trust it might be done in such a way that the annuity remitted...

  • Optimistic Outlook

    By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne

    Workers in finance and accounting jobs are more optimistic about the economy, and their work lives, than their counterparts in the general U.S. labor pool,...

  • Two Cautionary Tales

    By Staff Writer

    David Bibicoff, a planner from Strategies for Wealth Creation & Protection in White Plains, New York, reiterates the need for planners to anticipate protection needs...

  • Keeping Them Privileged

    By Staff Writer

    During a regulatory examination or a client litigation/arbitration proceeding, be sure not to provide e-mails to or from your legal counsel. These e-mails, together with...

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