Research Magazine June 2010
Cover Story
Model Non-Employees
After last year's banner surge, independent broker-dealers have seen a sharp falloff in new advisors. The question that begs asking: Has the RIA marketplace stolen...
Features
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No More Secret Banking
Alarmed at lenders' loosened customer standards, Andrew Redleaf saw a red flag waving in the mortgage market as early as 2002. By 2006, the contrarian...
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A Tale of Origins
When Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr dueled at dawn on July 11, 1804, the fight was not just between a former Treasury secretary and a...
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Annuity Analytics: AXA Equitable Retirement Cornerstone
PRODUCT REVIEW Last month I addressed a variable annuity that protects retirees against the dreaded risk of inflation by offering a guaranteed payout rate linked...
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Taking Care of Business
Chiu Fong Wu Vice President-Investments, Wells Fargo Advisors, San Francisco How She Built Her Business: "When you save money for people, you're a hero. They spread my...
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Knowledge, Power and Retirement Planning
Why do we plan since war plans, economic plans, business plans as well as retirement plans typically fail when exposed to reality? What can a...
Editor's Note
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A Moral Commitment to Your Clients
Interest among wirehouse brokers in going independent ebbs and flows over the years, depending on the size of recruitment packages and public standing and marketing...
News
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Will Clean Energy Thrive?
It wasn't that long ago that crude oil was over $150 per barrel and the world was clamoring for alternative energy sources. Politicians and the...
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Investors Leaving Money Markets, As Flows Go to Bonds, Equities
According to the latest Lipper research, investors withdrew nearly $150 billion from money market funds in March, their 14th straight month of net redemptions. They...
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Major Firms Grow Results on Strong 'Q1 Markets
First-quarter results at the wirehouses indicate that Morgan Stanley Smith Barney leads the pack in terms of the number of financial advisors, while Merrill Lynch...
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Stifel Strikes Deal To Acquire Weisel
Stifel Financial and Thomas Weisel Partners Group have entered into a roughly $300-million merger agreement, several months after Stifel acquired 56 UBS branches. If the merger...
Voices/Columnists
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Get New Clothes
You probably recall Hans Christian Andersen's delightful story "The Emperor's New Clothes," in which a potentate parades before his subjects while supposedly wearing a garment...
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Disclaimers
Have you noticed that as the baby boom generation ages, the advertising we see on television changes along with them? Think back to those golden...
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Disorder on the Border
Remember the giant sucking sound? That was the catchy campaign slogan on which businessman H. Ross Perot ran as an independent in the 1992 presidential...
Investment Spotlight
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Consumer Sectors: Ready to Spend
Jon R. Andersen William Blair & Company 312-364-8697 jandersen@williamblair.com Alberto-Culver's (ACV) portfolio of leading personal care brands (No. 4 in U.S. hair care), brand-building talent (five-year compound annual sales...
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