Research Magazine December 2007

Features

  • Opportunity of a Lifetime

    By Jane Wollman Rusoff

    Here's a wake-up jolt: The last generation of retirees couldn't manage to maintain their lifestyles beyond average life expectancy. With the right new approaches, though,...

  • Research Roundtable

    By Jane Wollman Rusoff

    The panelists are optimistic about what they forecast to be the sixth year of the bull market. No, they're not wearing rose-colored glasses: In interviews...

News

  • TargetDate ETFs Hit the Street

    By Staff Writer

    Among the new exchange-traded funds XShares Advisors recently introduced on NYSE Arca are a series of five target date or "lifestyle" ETFs that range in...

  • Mapping the Index Universe

    By Staff Writer

    The rapid explosion of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has been truly amazing to watch. With almost 600 U.S.-listed funds trading and over $500 billion in assets,...

  • PowerShares Debuts Bond Funds

    By Staff Writer

    PowerShares Capital Management has expanded its family of fixed-income exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The company has listed five new funds, including an emerging markets fund as well...

  • Raising ETF Awareness

    By Staff Writer

    Rydex Investments has announced the launch of a comprehensive educational initiative to help bridge the gap between the burgeoning ETF marketplace and investor awareness about...

  • SPA Launches MarketGrader ETFs

    By Staff Writer

    SPA ETFs has launched a new series of six exchange-traded funds with underlying fundamentally driven indices designed by U.S. research company MarketGrader to beat the...

  • Very Important Persons

    By Robert Tyndall

    The financial advisory business is said to be a relationship business. As we know, in life as in business, there are all kinds of relationships:...

  • Industry's Focus: Retirement Income

    By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne

    Mutual funds and the organizations that sell them continue to introduce a variety of retirement-income products to position themselves for further market opportunities. And it's...

  • Retirement Income Meets the Internet

    By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne

    Fidelity Investments has introduced the Fidelity Retirement Income Evaluator, an online planning tool for managing retirement income plans and building a more efficient and profitable...

  • Lord Abbett's New Shares

    By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne

    Lord, Abbett & Company has introduced three new share classes for several of its mutual funds: F, R2 and R3. Also, the firm has reclassified...

  • Fidelity Plans 'WealthCentral'

    By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne

    Fidelity Investments says it is developing an online wealth- management platform that integrates registered investment advisors' critical operational systems, including portfolio management, customer relationship management...

  • IN BRIEF

    By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne

    Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group says its quarterly results for the three months ended September 30 included net revenues of $571 million, net income of...

  • Subprime Mortgage Crisis 2, Financial-Service CEOs 0

    By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne

    Merrill Lynch says it hired former NYSE Euronext CEO John Thain on November 14 to replace the brokerage firm's ex-CEO and chairman, Stan O'Neal, who...

  • 2007-2008: Executive Perspectives

    By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne

    The past 12 months have been tumultuous for the financial-services industry, with the credit-related write-downs and related changes in leadership, mergers and acquisitions, and stock...

  • Product Push

    By Staff Writer

    A select group of market segments and companies are poised to improve results in the coming months, analysts say. --- Analyst: Ronald A. Tadross, CFAFirm: Banc of...

  • James R. Cotto

    By Ellen Uzelac

    Managing Director-Investments Cotto & Padovani Financial Strategies Group Wachovia Securities Career Began: 1987 Home Base: New York City and Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Civic Affiliations: Operation Smile, future-care planning for families...

  • Carol Glazer

    By Ellen Uzelac

    Senior Vice President/Wealth Management Smith Barney Career Began: 1980 Home Base: New York City Civic Affiliations: Young Survival Coalition, Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, The Cancer Center for Kids...

  • Howard S. Lorch

    By Ellen Uzelac

    Managing Director-Investments Wachovia Securities Career Began: 1969 Home Base: Houston, Texas Civic Affiliations: University of Houston, The 100 Club, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Boy Scouts of America When Howard Lorch...

  • Eric Park

    By Ellen Uzelac

    Co-founder Steamboat Financial Group LPL Career Began: 1980 Home Base: Washington, Mo. Civic Affiliations: Washington Rotary Club, Franklin County Humane Society, East Central College When Eric Park was a child, he...

  • Van Pearcy

    By Ellen Uzelac

    President Van Pearcy Financial Raymond James Financial Services Career Began: 1987 Home Base: Midland, Texas Civic Affiliations: Scholarship endowment for MBA program at University of Notre Dame, scholarships for athletic...

  • Making It Simple

    By Robert Scott Martin

    Research: What's happening to the way Americans are structuring their financial relationships?Cohen: People have an innate desire for simplicity in their financial service relationships. About...

  • Lesson 11: Feast or Famine First?

    By Moshe A. Milevsky

    The ancient biblical story of Joseph and King Pharaoh tells of a famous dream of the king in which the land of Egypt was prophesized...

Voices/Columnists

  • Take Back the Pie

    By Bill Good

    Last month, I reviewed one of the few books by financial advisors on investing. This was Investing on Autopilot by Robert S. Cable. This month,...

  • Expectations

    By Bill Miller

    To quote Johnny Mathis, "It's the most wonderful time of the year." In fact, if you close your eyes and take a deep breath, you can...

  • Make 'Em Laugh

    By Mary Scott

    I read a book last weekend that turned heads at the hair salon, and prompted a 12-year-old to banish me from the family room, because,...

  • Making It to Retirement

    By Marie Swift

    In October, I had the privilege of interviewing award-winning journalist Gail MarksJarvis (www.GailMarksJarvis.com). Gail's Chicago Tribune columns reach millions of readers throughout the U.S. Prior...

  • Resolved to Succeed

    By Patricia J. Abram

    Financial advisors constantly tell me how frustrated they are about implementing real change in their businesses. "You've given me some great ideas," they say, "but...

  • A Boon to Investors and Advisors

    By Alexei Bayer

    There is a bit of down-home feel about my lunch with Noel C. Archard, Head of Product Development at iShares. The restaurant serves traditional Neapolitan...

  • Finding the Next Google

    By Alexei Bayer

    When I was an undergraduate at Columbia in the mid-1970s, students at the university's top-notch School of Engineering had a reputation of being socially awkward...

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