Nancy R. Mandell

• The First 100 Days

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  March 27, 2009

  The Obama administration's financial stimulus plan rated a thumbs-up last Tuesday from a panel assembled by Dow Jones Indexes/STOXX Ltd. to reflect on the first 100 days of the new regime.

• New Name on the Door at Raymond James

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  March 18, 2009

  Raymond James Financial reaches outside the family for a new CEO.

• Levitt and Donaldson Head Investor's Rights Task Force

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  March 2, 2009

  A non-partisan task force composed of financial industry experts and co-chaired by two former SEC chairmen has been assembled to stress the "primacy of investor interest" in the expected regulatory reforms to the U.S. financial markets.

• Connecting the [Tech] Dots

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  March 2, 2009

  Advisors attending TD Ameritrade's Institutional Partnership Conference in Las Vegas last month got a first look at AdvisorConnect, a new technology that links three leading industry applications and services within a single platform.

• An Index for the NAAIM Game

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  March 2, 2009

  NAAIM, the National Association of Active Investment Managers, has launched the Actively Managed Fund (AMF) Index comprised, currently, of 21 funds managed by some of NAAIM's 200-member firms.

• A Turnkey Solution for Compliance

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  March 2, 2009

  To meet the needs of that "increasingly stringent regulatory environment," InvestEdge (www.investedge.com) has updated its Compliance Solution application for banks and financial advisors and made...

• Bad Times, Good Timing

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  March 1, 2009

  Trust: Clients seek it; you've earned it. But in the post-Madoff era, even established registered investment advisors are tainted by the public skepticism born first...

• LPL's Hybrid RIA Platform passes the billion-dollar mark

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  February 2, 2009

  LPL Financial, the nation's largest independent broker/dealer, announced Feb. 19 that the Hybrid RIA platform it introduced last October had reached more than $1.3 billion in assets under management in its first three months of operation.

• President's Day

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  February 1, 2009

  Two newcomers with hefty resumes have been named to top posts at Fidelity Investments Institutional Services, the company announced recently. Peter Cieszko, former president and...

• BALANCING ACT

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  January 1, 2009

  The vintage scales displayed in the conference room of Focus Financial Partners' midtown Manhattan offices are not the only collection CEO Rudy Adolf has his...