Research Magazine June 2008
Cover Story
What Will It Mean to Be an Independent Financial Advisor?
With baby boomers moving into self-funded retirement, the advisor will need to become expert at risk analysis, risk management and financial life planning. There will...
Features
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What Is the Shape of Things to Come?
Who: Alvin Toffler Where: Bel Air Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, April 9, 2008 On the Menu: Accelerating time, changing spatial relationships and shared knowledge. --- In 1970, around the time when...
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What Will Neuroscience Teach Us About Financial Decision-Making?
Well, there is one, or something quite similar. What's more, we all produce it -- right in our own brains. Oxytocin, a feel-good hormone that is...
News
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Whiter ETFs?
During the mid-1990s, the first generation of ETFs arose to track key benchmark indexes, like the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq-100. Toward...
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Troubled UBS Grows in ETNs
Despite massive multi-billion dollar write-downs and a growing chorus of angry activist shareholders, UBS has introduced eight new commodity linked exchange-traded notes. The UBS E-TRACS ETNs...
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Morningstar Line Awakens
Morningstar Investment Services launched a managed account service consisting of a line-up of five actively managed portfolios that use ETFs. Ameritas Investment Corp. and Centaurus Financial,...
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Foreign Debuts on the Upswing
The number of foreign-market ETFs continues to expand as investors look to diversify their portfolios away from U.S. stocks. Barclays Global Investors (BGI) launched five new...
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Going Active and Going Nuclear
Invesco PowerShares launched its first actively managed equity exchange-traded funds in April. The four new PowerShares funds are: o Active AlphaQ, benchmarked against the Nasdaq-100...
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Thirty Questions
Welcome to Research magazine's 30th anniversary issue! As noted in this space last month, you will find no boring retrospectives or nostalgia about the 1970s...
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Picking the Best Single-Country ETFs
To keep tabs on what's happening in financial markets from around the world, all you have to do is watch exchange-traded funds that follow stocks...
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WisdomTree Launches Currency-Income Funds
Exchange-traded funds with investment strategies that focus on niche markets continue to emerge at a fast clip. WisdomTree Investments and Dreyfus Corporation, for instance, recently teamed...
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Northern Trust Goes Global
Northern Trust Global Investments is the latest company to enter the ETF field. The Chicago-based company has introduced a lineup of eight foreign-equity ETFs. The...
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PowerShares Debutes 'ETF of ETFs'
Fund of fund solutions have been a hit with mutual funds and now they're poised to become a hit with exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Invesco PowerShares has...
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Plugging into New Energy
It's hard not to pick up a magazine or turn on the cable network with out hearing or reading a story about the green energy...
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Vanguard to Split Some ETF Shares
Vanguard is planning 2-for-1 share splits for three of its most popular ETFs. The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI), Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) and...
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ETFs vs. Closed-End Funds
While both exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and closed-end funds (CEFs)share many of the same features, they have important differences. Understanding these differences can help you to...
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Ameristock to Shut Down Treasury ETFs
Ameristock Corporation, the investment adviser for the Ameristock ETFs announced that it intends to liquidate each of the five funds it manages. The funds are...
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What's in Store for the Mutual Fund Industry?
What has the mutual fund industry accomplished in the past 30 years, and how is it poised to build on these developments in the next...
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What Will Advisor Technology Look Like?
Common wisdom says you don't make projections beyond five years. With the rapid change we've all become accustomed to, some would even say five years...
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What Will World Markets Look Like?
It's been a great 30 years for Research magazine. But what do the next 30 hold? And what do 2038 capital markets look like? Hard...
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How Will Baby Boomers Age?
Thirty years from today, the youngest baby boomer turns 74 years old, and the oldest turns 92. We still won't know how many boomers will...
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How Will You Help Your Clients?
At its best, financial advising is a helping profession. It is not just a service profession. The coming decades will elevate and emphasize the client...
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How Will the Competitive Landscape Shift?
The last 30 years altered the retail investment business and its compensation practices. For the next 30 years, the journey is certain to take even...
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How Will Advisors Thrive?
The financial services industry, like most other industries around the globe, is increasingly entrenched in a red ocean of bloody competition. Financial services firms have...
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How Will Financial Planning Change?
Within 30 years, financial planning will have largely completed its transition from a sales-based approach to an advice-driven professional service. Decades of commoditization of financial...
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How Will People Invest?
Investors today know and understand the markets better than in the past. There is a greater curiosity and ongoing interest. This demand for knowledge and...
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How Will Advisors Handle Change?
Pick up any newspaper or magazine and the headlines are daunting -- Credit Crisis...U.S. Recession...Economic Slowdown. These are challenging times. And while the view on...
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What Will Taxes Be Like?
As Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Yet the types and levels of taxation that occur are...
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How Will the Industry Transform Itself?
Here's a reality check for financial advisors. First, in 30 years there won't be anything called "financial services," let alone "financial advisors." Second, even though...
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What Will the Wirehouse Brokerage Firms Look Like 30 Years From Now?
What lies ahead for the major wirehouse/national brokerage firms?To really answer this, we have to look first at the past 30 years, and during this...
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'Tremendous Opportunity'
Several factors are driving demand in the aerospace market and make the sector highly attractive at this time, equity analysts say. --- Patrick J. McCarthy, CFAFriedman, Billings,...
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Counting on Consumers
In the U.S. and overseas, shoppers are looking for good value, which is good news for a select group of companies. --- Neil CurrieUBS203-719 3070neil.currie@ubs.com Coverage Area: Drug-Based...
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What's the Future of Financial Products?
David Macchia: There's a lot at stake for people as they approach retirement, many with arguably insufficient assets, or certainly not the optimum amount of...
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What Will the Future Ranks of FAs Look Like?
The U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown. The ongoing credit crunch. Volatile markets. The Bush administration's rethinking of the nation's regulatory blueprint for financial services companies. Talk...
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How Will a Networker Work?
The idea is to "create wealth, not just make money," says the ambitious Watkins, 28, who wants to "lead the new generation" to a secure...
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What Will Retirement Products Look Like?
This article does not claim to see the future of retirement products in a clear crystal ball, nor will it reveal dark secrets. It seeks...
Voices/Columnists
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What Kind of Teams Will Work?
When Research magazine made its debut in June 1978, the No. 1 song on the Billboard chart was "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" performed...
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What Will Client Relationships Be Like in 2038?
When this magazine got its start -- a mere 30 years ago -- our world was a very different place. Mood rings, lava lamps and...
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Which Advisors Will Thrive?
Strategic planner Dan Sullivan bases this book on one premise: Never has there been a more exciting time to be a financial advisor. Historically, he...
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How Will Clients Care for Their Parents?
What is the biggest challenge clients will face when caring for their parents?Boomers will spend roughly 12 to 20 years involved with the care of...
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What Will (and Will Not) Change?
As I started preparing for this column, two troubling sets of thoughts -- and one troubling song -- came to mind. First, I thought, "When the...
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How Will Capitalism Work in 2038?
In the early1990s, I got a job at an organization called Business International. For those who are not readily familiar with the communist ethos, the...
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