Investment Company Institute

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  10 Favorite Super Bowl TV Ads by Financial Firms

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2013

  AdvisorOne looked at 46 years of Super Bowl TV commercials, finding favorites starring Homer Simpson, Jerry Seinfeld and an unknown mutual fund pitchman from 1973.

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  The Middle Class Is Leaving the (Stock) Market

  By Alexei Bayer  |  January 23, 2013

  Many measures show that previously middle class families are jumping off the upward mobility ladder. The danger for advisors: they're shunning stocks.

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  Big Boost to 401(k) Roth Conversions in Fiscal Cliff Deal

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  January 3, 2013

  The last-minute deal by Congress to avoid the fiscal cliff contains a new option for workers saving for retirement.

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  Surprising Findings From MassMutual Review of Its Retirement Plans

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  November 21, 2012

  Although more participants in DC plans are from Gen Y or Gen X, boomers hold a larger percentage of assets, according to an analysis by MassMutual of retirement plans administered by the firm.

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  Helping Clients Ride Out the Coming Fixed Income Storm

  By J. Gibson Watson III, CIMA, Envestnet  |  November 7, 2012

  Like all investors, your pre-retirement clients may well be scarred, scared and skeptical, and moving more into fixed income just as a storm is brewing, Here's how you should be rethinking your approach to bonds.

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  New Hire Roundup: Aberdeen Adds NYC Office

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 17, 2012

  This week in new hires, MFS Investment Management welcomed Philip Stewart and promoted David Bryant; Leslie Voth was named CEO at Pitcairn; and Michael Millman joined U.S. Bank’s Private Client Reserve in San Francisco.

• A Securities Transaction Tax Will Hurt Advisors and Clients

  By Dale Brown, Financial Services Institute  |  October 4, 2012

  Yes, limiting market volatility and increasing government revenue are worthy goals, but legislation imposing a securities transaction tax is the wrong way to reach those goals.

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  Whatever Happened to U.S. Stock Funds?

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  September 25, 2012

  Flows out of U.S. equity funds such as Robert Zagunis' 20-year-old Jensen Quality Growth Fund can stem more from investor fear than fund quality.

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  How John Bogle Really Sees ETFs

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  September 25, 2012

  The investment visionary, long a skeptic of exchange-traded funds, gives his candid assessment of the fast-growing field.

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  New Hire Roundup: FINRA Names New Corporate Communications Head

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 12, 2012

  This week in new hires, FINRA announced that Greg Ahern will be its new head of corporate communications, and Neuberger & Berman welcomed Brendan Gill.