Investment Advisor March 2006

Features

  • Acting Like He Thinks

    By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne

    During recent years when large-cap growth funds were eschewed by many investors in favor of small- and mid-cap value, the $836 million Dreyfus Premier Alpha...

  • Old-Fashioned Advice

    By Robert F. Keane

    On a recent Thursday, advisor Howard Sontag had his first client meeting of the morning with a hedge fund manager and his wife who had...

  • Still Kicking

    By Liana Roberts

    Survivorship, or second-to-die, insurance serves a multiplicity of purposes in planning--everything from funding trusts to wealth accumulation--but one of its most popular selling points has...

  • Safety First

    By Robert F. Keane

    Few prudent drivers would take to the road without having their cars adequately insured, even if it were legally permissible. In these days when a...

  • Allocation Without Borders

    By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne

    When Ranji Nagaswami spoke at our Wealth Advisor Summit last December about an equities portfolio strategy that produces long-term outperformance along with reduced risk, we...

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  • Retirement.alt

    By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne

    To help their baby boomer clients generate a decent income stream in retirement, advisors are increasingly investing their clients' self-directed IRAs in alternative assets--everything from...

  • Why We Went RIA

    By Staff Writer

    The increased burden of compliance is troubling many RIAs these days, but there's another side to the story. While we didn't realize it at the...

Sidebar Stories

  • In '07 Budget, Modest Changes in Social Security

    By Staff Writer

    During his State of the Union address in late January, President Bush said he plans to create a bipartisan commission to study the full impact...

  • About The Manager

    By Staff Writer

    As senior managing director and director of systematic equity investments at Bear Stearns Asset Management, James O'Shaughnessy manages $7.1 billion, including sub-management of funds for...

  • Howard Sontag

    By Staff Writer

    Founder/Managing Partner Sontag Advisory 261 Madison Avenue, #14 New York, New York 10016 212-973-1200 Fax: 212-973-1210 hsontag@sontagadvisory.com Year practice began: 1995 Number of advisors: 6 Number of support staff: 20 Clients: more than 350 Client assets:...

  • It Was Time

    By Staff Writer

    After 20 years, one firm decided to buy coverage. From its founding in 1983 until last year, L.J. Altfest & Co., an advisory firm based...

  • The Price of Being Small

    By Staff Writer

    When Lon Dolber opened the doors of his broker/dealer on September 11, 2001, he was as shocked as anyone by the events of the day,...

  • More Money for the Cops

    By Staff Writer

    Under President Bush's 2007 fiscal budget, the SEC's enforcement division as well as the inspections and examinations division would both get more cash. The administration...

  • Accident Ahead?

    By Staff Writer

    Among those who fear that a lack of regulation of hedge funds might be harmful is Bill Donaldson, the former chairman of the Securities and...

  • The Benefits of Big

    By Staff Writer

    Individual RIAs and smaller broker/dealers appear to most keenly feel the burden of compliance, but what of the larger broker/dealers? "We can spread costs across...

  • Behind the Numbers, with Sam Stovall

    By Staff Writer

    It still may not be too late for investors to profit from the energy sector, according to S&P's chief investment strategist, despite its outperformance of...

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