Investment Advisor October 2006

Features

Beginnings

  • About That Sideways Market...

    By Staff Writer

    Regarding the article, "The Role of Equity-Indexed Annuities" in the August 2006 issue, I would like to bring into question some of the arguments used...

  • 'Tis the Season(ality)

    By Staff Writer

    Attempts to predict the direction of the stock market run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. Besides the usual suspects of fundamental and...

  • Asset Allocation Report

    By Staff Writer

    To learn this month's recommended asset allocations of Investment Advisor's panel of distinguished economists and money managers, click here. Behind the Numbers, with Gary Shilling "I think...

  • SRI and Hedge Funds

    By Staff Writer

    Socially responsible investing (SRI) assets have been growing at a significantly faster rate than total assets under professional management, particularly among non-profit and faith-based organizations,...

  • Remember To Pay The Mortgage

    By Staff Writer

    Mortgage-backed securi-ties, a somewhat overlooked, though very large, section of the fixed-income universe, are becoming more attractive to investors in light of a softening housing...

  • The Young & Not-So-Young

    By Angie Herbers

    This past August, the Financial Planning Association gave us a glimpse of the future leaders of the profession by hosting its first-ever NexGen 2006 conference. The...

  • Shrinking the Software Pond

    By Staff Writer

    After a seven-month process, from roadshow to handshake, Emerging Information Systems Inc. (EISI), maker of NaviPlan financial planning software, closed the deal on its acquisition...

  • Taking It to The Hill

    By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne

    Independent broker/dealers and investment advisors lobbied members of Congress with a three-pronged message during the Financial Services Institute's (FSI) Public Policy Day in Washington September...

  • Catching up with...

    By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne

    With 20 years of investment management experience under his belt, Tom Grzymala is on a mission to see that "the full meaning and spirit of...

  • Numerology

    By Staff Writer

    According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report, the number of Americans covered by a government health insurance plan as of 2005 was 38.1 million,...

  • Groupthink

    By Staff Writer

    The National Association of Personal Finance Advisors has elected its National Board for 2006-2007. Among the Board's priorities is further development of the Focus on...

  • Upgrades

    By Staff Writer

    Forty-three percent of small businesses with fewer than 20 employees say cost is the biggest hurdle preventing them from offering a 401(k) plan to workers,...

  • Light Shiner

    By Staff Writer

    "My major crusade at the moment is absolute returns," barks Gene Balliett over the phone in describing his current passion. He's been down other roads...

  • Strategies and Strategists

    By Staff Writer

    In his IA Leader's Interview in the October 2006 issue of Investment Advisor, Gene Balliett of Balliett Financial Services in Winter Park, Florida, discusses how...

  • Get Your Arms Around It

    By Staff Writer

    In a conversation late in August that formed the basis for an interview in this issue, I asked Jerry Miccolis, a CFA, CFP, and an...

Columns

Conclusions

  • ETFs for 401(k)s Are OK

    By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne

    Now that the Pension Protection Act has become law, plan sponsors should refrain from using money market and stable value funds as default options in...

  • Advancing the Conversation

    By Staff Writer

    Death. As a topic of conversation, it is obviously not a favorite for most people. Yet death, and its profound and multi-layered impact on unprepared...

  • News & Products

    By Staff Writer

    Offering a much-needed solution to traditional variable annuities that levy high fees, Ameritas Direct has launched a no-load variable annuity that boasts no commission, sales...

  • UMAs & CIFs: New 401(k) Solutions

    By Elizabeth D. Festa

    John Newman's group at Denver-based Fiserv ISS is poised to take advantage of the new trend toward outside management of asset allocation in retirement plans--and...

  • Seeking Liquidity

    By Staff Writer

    Despite the enormous potential the life settlement market offers, experts are not sure how quickly it will get going. There has been too much confusion...

  • NASD Notice 06-38

    By Staff Writer

    Download a copy of the notice NASD sent to its members in August here.

  • What Matters Most

    By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne

    When we asked reps to rate their broker/dealers in the 16th annual IA Broker/Dealer of the Year Poll, reps got to vote in 15 categories....

  • News & Products

    By Staff Writer

    How sweet it is: KeyCorp is selling its McDonald Investments branch network to UBS, and the approximately 340 reps in those 51 branches are being...

  • The Times Are A-Changing

    By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne

    In an August 22 presentation, Mindy Lubber, president of the environmental and investment coalition Ceres, baldly said that global warming is "the greatest threat the...

  • What's Behind Us Is the Future

    By Staff Writer

    Any serious discussion about the management of wealth or how to invest should begin with a basic understanding of human behavior, of when and why...

  • Fungos and Legacy

    By Staff Writer

    On a beautiful Saturday this past May I sat at a baseball field in Raleigh, North Carolina, watching 40 or so youngsters participate in a...

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