Research Magazine October 2010
Cover Story
2010 ETF Advisor Hall of Fame
We're happy indeed to welcome you to Research magazine's fourth annual ETF Hall of Fame. It's no wonder that exchange-traded funds are the industry's fastest growing...
Features
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The Paycheck Question
Advisors will make slightly more money in 2010 than they did last year -- but then that's not saying a whole lot, is it? And,...
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Just Technicalities?
The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson, key figure in his profession and author of its biggest-selling textbook, wrote scornfully about "gypsy tea-leaf readers, Wall...
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The Reinvented Advisor
John Ludwig Owner, LHDretirement; Indianapolis FUN FACT: As a sophomore at Iowa State University, where he majored in agriculture business finance, Ludwig moonlighted as a registered rep...
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Do Living Benefits on Indexed Annuities Make Sense?
Given the success that the variable annuity industry has had with offering living benefits as riders on their products, we shouldn't be surprised that the...
Editor's Note
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A Project Worthy of Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, the great scholar of the Dutch Renaissance, demonstrated 150 ways of phrasing the Latin sentence, Tuae literae me magnopere delectarunt ("Your...
News
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Will Treasuries Plunge?
With the Federal Reserve reiterating its stance on a low interest rate environment, falling bond yields have been a major investment theme so far this...
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Grail Liquidates Sector ETFs
Grail Advisors pulled the plug on the RP Technology ETF (RPQ) and RP Financials ETF (RFF) because of a lack of investor interest. Both funds...
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PowerShares Embraces Fundamentals
In what could signal a new trend in the indexing world, Invesco PowerShares revamped one of its bond ETFs to follow a fundamentally weighted bond...
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Fund Flows Continue into Bonds
Stock and bond funds in the United States experienced net inflows of $15.4 billion in July, reports the Financial Research Corporation. This is down 34...
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Pimco Leaders Assess Markets, Government Policies
Pimco's CEO and Co-CIO Mohamed A. El-Erian says business at the bond shop is "booming," which is not a good sign for the U.S. economy,...
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Wirehouse Firms Still Lead in Assets, Data Show
The four wirehouses continue to dominate the list of sponsors of separately managed accounts for the second quarter of this year, according to a research...
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Morgan Stanley Adds Exec, Tech
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which has 18,087 financial advisors, tapped managing director James F. Walker to head its consulting services, which provides investment consulting and...
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Wells Shifts Tax-Withholding on Commissions
Wells Fargo says it has moved to resolve an issue affecting as many as 11,000 financial advisors who joined Wells Fargo Advisors after the bank...
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Cetera Financial Adding Managers, Re-Grouping FAs
Cetera Financial Group, the former ING Advisors Network, is hiring more executives for its wealth-management team. Alex Kaye, formerly of Wilshire Associates and UBS, is...
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Baird Maintains Momentum with FA Growth
Baird recently hired nine financial advisors from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Charleston, S.C., and Fort Worth, Texas, with about $1.3 billion in total client...
Voices/Columnists
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Evaluating Client Goodness
If you have not yet read my September Research article, "Brace for Impact," I strongly recommend you do so immediately. "Impact" is an interview with...
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Fireproof Your Practice
Every advisor I know has at least one good story about firing a client. We all know the client in these stories... He has millions...
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How's Your Bedside Manner?
While working with our healthcare clients to reduce the incident-rate of malpractice suits, we discovered that there is little correlation between the competency of doctors...
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The Myth of Growth
Over the past two years, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been one of the most vocal and noticeable advocates...
Investment Spotlight
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Energy: Heating Up
Ronald J. Barone UBS 212-713-3848 ronald.barone@ubs.com Southwest Gas Corporation (SWX) realized recurring 2Q10 EPS of $0.06 (excluding $3.6 million in corporate owned life insurance policy charges), surpassing our $0.02...
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Water: Refreshing Opportunities
SAM Sustainable Asset Management Zurich, Switzerland www.sam-group.com The global water market continues to experience above-average growth rates, with the overall size of the global water market estimated at...
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