Investment Advisor October 2008

Features

  • War Room

    By Maya Ivanova

    Maybe it was the bailout of investment bank giant Bear Stearns or the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie. Perhaps it was the steep decline...

  • One Small (Big) Step

    By Angie Herbers

    It's often educational to skip a conference for a year or two; it makes the changes stand out more. This year's FPA NexGen Conference, held...

  • Miami Advice

    By Robert F. Keane

    One of the telltale signs that the advisory profession is still in its infancy is how many advisors started on another path before finding their...

  • Not Alone

    By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne, Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne

    AMR Corp.'s decision to sell its money management arm, American Beacon Advisors Inc., to a private equity consortium--a deal that was announced in April 2008--bodes...

  • Sleuthing Bonds

    By Staff Writer

    Furthermore, the correlation coefficient of the municipal to Treasury bond relationship has slipped from it's long-time average around 50% to below 0% recently, indicating that...

  • Gold Medal

    By Staff Writer

    As a registered investment advisor (RIA), you are in the business of serving your clients' financial needs--and it's no exaggeration to say that the quality...

  • Stand and Deliver

    By Staff Writer

    It's late morning, and the summer sun is shining on Mt. Kearsarge in central New Hampshire. Ross Gott, president of Kearsarge Capital Advisors in nearby...

Beginnings

  • RIAs Are Certainly Not "Under-Regulated"

    By Staff Writer

    I most strongly disagree with the assertion by Eric Schwartz in the "The Case for the Flexible B/D" (IA September), that RIAs are "under-regulated." He...

  • Asset Allocation, October 2008

    By Staff Writer

    Read this month's recommended asset allocations from Investment Advisor's panel of distinguished economists and money managers here.

  • More Hedge Fund Closures Likely

    By Jeff Joseph

    The closure of Ospraie Manage-ment LLC's flagship hedge fund is likely to be the first of several such failures, as a slump in commodities and...

  • Funds Get Real Amid Unreal Housing Market

    By Beth Piskora

    For many homeowners, the real estate market has turned, well, unreal.The average home price fell 18.22% since its peak in the second quarter of 2006,...

  • Wall Street Stunned

    By James J. Green, AdvisorOne

    Wall Street is not what it used to be, for good or ill. Culminating (at least for the moment) a months-long period of market volatility...

  • And the Winner Is...

    By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne

    With the Presidential election only a month away, we thought we'd review where the candidates--Sens. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) and John McCain (R-Arizona)--stand on various hot-button...

  • Catching up with... Dick Averitt

    By Staff Writer

    Raymond James Financial Services's (RJFS) national conference, in Washington in late August, drew an impressive 968 advisors. One of the hot topics at the conference...

  • Foreign Aid

    By Kara P. Stapleton

    John Ledford is making an impact on the lives of small business owners worldwide. The president of Ledford Financial, which predominantly serves business owners and...

  • Group Think

    By Staff Writer

    The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has named pioneering planner Don Pitti as the recipient of the 2008 P. Kemp Fain Jr. Award, which recognizes a...

  • Changes

    By Staff Writer

    PIMCO announced that Mohamed El-Erian, who returned to PIMCO in January 2008 from Harvard University's endowment fund, was elected to serve as the firm's CEO...

  • Upgrades

    By Staff Writer

    Fisher investments has closed on its second acquisition of an RIA firm--Lighthouse Capital Management of Houston, a 20-year-old practice with $460 million in AUM that...

  • An Alternative Education

    By Kara P. Stapleton

    Despite investors' lack of familiarity with alternative investments, new research suggests that they are open to them, if only they are educated first. The Alternative Investments...

  • When Big Is Better

    By James J. Green, AdvisorOne

    When we last conducted a personal interview with Larry Roth two years ago at the FSI conference in San Diego, he had just joined the...

  • Avoiding the Scars

    By James J. Green, AdvisorOne

    Like that famous scene in "Jaws" where Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, and Roy Scheider compare scars, several of us editorial types were in the office...

Columns

Conclusions

Sidebar Stories

  • Cathy Pareto

    By Staff Writer

    President & founder Cathy Pareto & Associates Inc. 2332 Galiano Street, 2nd Floor Coral Gables, Florida 33134 Phone: 305-728-7234 E-mail: info@cathypareto.com Web site: www.cathypareto.com Year firm founded: 2007 Number of advisors in firm:...

  • Know Your Client

    By Staff Writer

    When it comes to providing world-class customer service, longevity can help you understand what individual clients need. For instance, as client relationships develop, you will...

  • A Picky Employer

    By Staff Writer

    Financial Finesse has 400 corporate clients and employs six CFPs--whom it compensates via a salary and a bonus. But CEO Liz Davidson stresses that the...

  • It's Not Always About Money

    By Staff Writer

    Helping clients through life's stages may take many forms. For example, one long-time client of GW& Wade's Tim Pinch consulted him before purchasing real estate...

  • Another Benefit

    By Staff Writer

    Getting a number of members of your team to be engaged with clients in the early phase of their relationship with your firm helps the...

  • About the Manager

    By Staff Writer

    William F. Quinn, chairman of American Beacon Advisors Inc., has been with the AMR group since 1974, when he joined American Airlines' former subsidiary, Sky...

  • About the Source

    By Staff Writer

    This article on the current state of the advisory profession, and its insights into the best practices of the most successful firms, is based on...

  • Going It Alone

    By Staff Writer

    Like many advisors who choose to leave established firms where they have been employees to build independent practices where they can be their own bosses,...

  • Little Things Mean a Lot

    By Staff Writer

    Jim Oxley and his team of three partners wrestled with issues similar to those Ross Gott faced in New London, New Hampshire. Eighteen months ago,...

  • Behind the Numbers, with David Kelly

    By Staff Writer

    "We've seem to have hit somewhat of a turning point on the dollar, so we want to be primarily in U.S. stocks now," explains David...

  • Exit Strategy?

    By Staff Writer

    When we last conducted a personal interview with Larry Roth two years ago at the FSI conference in San Diego, he had just joined the...

  • Annuities Better for Women?

    By Kara P. Stapleton

    Women should put 40% to 80% of retirement assets into lifetime income annuities, according to Lifetime Income for Women: A Financial Economist's Perspective, a paper...

  • Listing of Pooled Income Fund Sponsors

    By Staff Writer

    Life Income Funds of America www.lifeincomefund.org Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund www.charitablegift.org Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund www.myfamilyfoundation.org American Red Cross www.redcross.org/donate/plngiv/pooled.html Harvard University Planned...

  • The Investment Advisor -Moss Adams Connection

    By Staff Writer

    This 14th annual Moss Adams Study of advisory firms was conducted by Moss Adams, the 12th largest accounting and consulting firm in the country, but...

  • Playing Fair

    By Staff Writer

    When it comes to negotiating compensation for yourself, you should propose a fair compensation package. In using that phrase, I'm not talking about those "fair...

  • Learning to Listen by Speaking

    By Staff Writer

    Following is an excerpt from a column written by Olivia Mellan for the May 2002 issue of Investment Advisor in which she describes the technique...

  • The Next Steps

    By Staff Writer

    Catherine J. Weatherford, new president and CEO of NAVA, says that the most important issues she sees facing the group and the industry are the...

  • Green Checklist for Your Office

    By Staff Writer

    Advisors who want to go green might want to see how many items they can answer "Yes" to on the checklist below. Do you...

Web Extras

  • Annuities for Women

    By Kara P. Stapleton

    Women should put 40% to 80% of retirement assets into lifetime income annuities, according to Lifetime Income for Women: A Financial Economist's Perspective, a paper...

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