Investment Advisor June 2005

Features

Beginnings

  • Let's Call a Broker, a Broker

    By Staff Writer

    Regarding the SEC's "Merrill" rule ("Brokers Win a Round," May 2005), of course it is confusing to investors when they try to decide who will...

  • The Chilling Effect of Rumors

    By Staff Writer

    This year marks the seventh anni-versary of the Long-Term Capital Management meltdown, but the shadow cast by the collapse of the highly leveraged bond hedge...

  • Global Funds Exhibit Latitude

    By Staff Writer

    Unlike international stock funds, global equity funds can invest in the U.S. markets, which can often provide them with protection from the volatility and uncertainty...

  • Nixon in China

    By Staff Writer

    There are many worried conversations these days in financial and political circles about China--the demographic, economic, and military behemoth. To feed its red-hot economy, China...

Columns

Conclusions

Sidebar Stories

  • You Can Fight the SEC

    By Staff Writer

    On April 14, the Securities & Exchange Commission agreed to pay $102,969 in attorney's fees incurred by one Charles D. Elliot III in fighting an...

  • About The Manager

    By Staff Writer

    Harindra de Silva is manager of the Analytic Defensive Equity Fund, but he plays a much larger role within Analytic Investors Inc. He is responsible...

  • Shift to Save

    By Staff Writer

    Here are two examples of how income shifting helps clients pay for a child's education: Example #1: A student's college expenses are $20,000 per year In this...

  • About The Planners

    By Staff Writer

    Norman M. Boone, MBA, CFP President, founder Boone Financial Advisors, Inc. 433 California Street, Suite 520 San Francisco, California 94104 415-788-1952 www.booneadvisors.com nboone@booneadvisors.com Year practice began: 1987 Number of advisors in office: 6 CFPs,...

  • A B/D Where Technology is King

    By Staff Writer

    Lon Dolber, the founder and CEO of American Portfolios Financial Services in Holbrook, New York, sees himself not only as the head of a broker/dealer,...

  • Looking Back

    By Staff Writer

    Bob Clark points out in his column this month (page 53) that the limited partnerships of yore weren't the first, or last, alternative investment that...

  • Behind the Numbers, with Gary Thayer

    By Staff Writer

    "We're cautious about the [stock] market," says the chief economist for A.G. Edwards & Sons. "We believe the market is undervalued, but we recognize that...

  • Advisors' New Role: Matchmaker

    By Staff Writer

    As "Am I going to outlive my assets?" becomes the overriding concern of your clients, rather than "How can I grow my assets?" your role...

  • Fidelity Still Gaining on Schwab

    By Staff Writer

    Schwab virtually invented the custodian business for RIAs serving high-net worth individuals. In the late 1990s, about 75% of the all new assets flowing into...

  • Reg Rigmarole Crippling Fund Firms

    By Staff Writer

    Mutual fund officials told Congress last month that fund firms are drowning in the deluge of SEC rules they've come under in the last year...

  • Where do I start?

    By Staff Writer

    The first step in setting up a QDOT, as with any estate planning, would be to seek out an experienced attorney to draft the trust....

  • Skill or Luck?

    By Staff Writer

    To illustrate the idea of market predictability--or unpredictability--imagine that you held a national coin-flipping competition, and enlisted exactly 200 million participants. To play the game,...

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