School of Management

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  TRAU to Launch Plan Sponsor University

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  April 8, 2013

  As the Department of Labor becomes more interested in how retirement plan sponsors run their plans, educating not just participants but the sponsors themselves becomes more important.

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  UBS to Slash 10,000 Jobs

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 29, 2012

  The actions are seen as a way for UBS to go "back to its roots" in the advisory business.

• Thriving Amid Low Rates

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  September 25, 2012

  Income investors have been crushed by the depressed interest rate environment.

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  New Hire Roundup: Benartzi to Serve as Achaean Academic Advisor

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 24, 2012

  This week in new hires, Achaean Financial announced that Professor Shlomo Benartzi would become its first academic advisor, and Michele Wein Layne was named regional director of the SEC’s Los Angeles regional office.

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  MSSB Loses $600 Million Lerner Group to HighTower

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  July 16, 2012

  This is the seventh new advisor team in 2012 to join the Chicago-based financial services firm run by CEO Elliot Weissbluth.

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  Schwab Partners With fi360, The Retirement Advisor University for Retirement Suite

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  July 12, 2012

  Schwab Retirement Business Services announced on Wednesday that it has launched a suite of retirement tools to help advisors increase productivity and build skills in their 401(k) plans.

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  Only 1 in 5 Americans Trust the Financial System

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  May 3, 2012

  Only 22% of Americans trust the U.S. financial system, according to the latest quarterly Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index.

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  2012 Large-Cap SMA Manager of the Year Co-Winner: BRC Investment Management

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2012

  BRC Investment Management's Large-Cap Concentrated Equity Portfolio is one of two large-cap SMA portfolios honored as a 2012 Separately Managed Account Manager of the Year.

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  Most Advisors Caught Failing Clients in Research ‘Sting’

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2012

  Results of findings by National Bureau of Economic Research, which had undercover actors portraying clients, showed Boston-area advisors putting their own interests first.

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  Top Portfolio Products: Market Vectors’ Indonesia ETF; Turkish Private Equity Fund Closes

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 23, 2012

  New products introduced over the last week include a new Indonesia small-cap ETF from Market Vectors; the closure of a Turkish private equity fund; a high-yield bond fund from Aberdeen; and a new fund trust from Gemini.