Risk Management

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  SEC’s 16 Biggest Penalties Since Financial Crisis

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 24, 2013

  The SEC recently released a roundup of its financial crisis enforcement actions, highlighting some of the more than 150 firms and individuals the agency has levied charges against since 2008.

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  Apple Stock Plummets as S&P 500 Hits 1,500

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  January 24, 2013

  Apple's shares fell sharply on Thursday on slower-than-expected sales.

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  Wealth Managers: Tell Your Clients to Stop Being Afraid

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 18, 2013

  Advisors who keep an eye on the curious and sometimes counterproductive behavior of investors can combat lackluster returns in their own clients’ portfolios.

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  Finke Study Warns: 4% Retirement Rule Is Dead, Long Live Annuities

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  January 17, 2013

  A retirement income portfolio based on the popular 4% rule has a 57% chance of failure based on current returns. "The bottom line is that the current low-yield environment is a retirement income game changer," the study's co-author, Michael Finke, says.

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  Are All Your HNW Clients’ Assets Disaster-Ready?

  By Kathleen Tierney, Chubb  |  January 15, 2013

  Recent investing decisions by the affluent, and increasingly unpredictable weather events, highlight the need to evaluate clients’ specific risks, and transfer these exposures via appropriate insurance coverage and financial limits.

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  Hedge Fund Leverage Reaches 2004 Levels

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  January 14, 2013

  More leverage means more potential losses should stocks decline, a major contributor to the depth and length of the economic crisis beginning in 2008.

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  Top 7 Biggest Bank Fines

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  January 11, 2013

  AdvisorOne finds that all of the biggest bank penalties have been levied in the last 10 years, with most of them since the financial crisis started in 2008.

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  Fiscal Cliff Law: Clients’ Taxes, What’s Next, and How to Plan

  By William H. Byrnes, Esq., Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M.  |  January 4, 2013

  All you need to know about the American Taxpayer Relief Act—both good and bad—and how it will affect your clients and their planning.

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  Is a Higher VIX the New Normal?

  By Ron DeLegge, ETFguide.com  |  January 3, 2013

  What to look for and how to invest in trends affecting this volatile indicator during 2013.

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  Interest-Rate Risk's Ticking Time Bomb: News Analysis

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  December 28, 2012

  What may seem to Americans like an annual budget crisis, recurring at the end of each year, could morph into a more European style perma-crisis...