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Dropouts: Mom and Pops Aren’t Making It
So far this year, more “mom-and-pop” broker/dealers are dropping out of the business compared to this time last year, according to new data from the Compliance Department Inc.
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Show Me the Money
How to get the most value for your practice when its time to sell? Put a plan in place to ensure clients will barely notice you are gone.
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Hedging ETFs Inside Annuities
A new program shorts futures contracts to hedge ETF holdings inside annuity contracts. It’s not cheap, but some say it’s worth it.
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A Golden Future for Dividends?
In the aftermath of the 2008-2009 market meltdown, investors piled into gold mining issues, Treasury bonds and high-dividend stocks. The dividend play has now become very crowded and the wheels on the mining stock bus are wobbling dangerously but a novel twist in corporate payouts could, in one fell swoop, generate new interest. Gold Resource Corp. (NYSE Amex: GORO), a low-cost bullion producer, recently
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Alts: Are They ‘Alternative’ Anymore?
Over the last couple years, we’ve written time and again about the mainstreaming of alternative investments with the rise of alternative mutual funds and ETFs.
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What Your Advisors Hate About You
The branch office manager used to be the highly revered elder statesmen of the industry. No more. Many advisors say the position is increasingly part of a corporate bureaucracy with a mandate to push the agenda of the firm over the interests of the clients.
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THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR: Best & Worst Style ETFs & Mutual Funds
This report identifies the “best” ETFs and mutual funds based on the quality of their holdings and their costs. As detailed in “A cheap fund is not always a good fund”, there are few funds that have both good holdings and low costs. While there are lots of cheap funds, there are very few with high-quality holdings.
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Five Ways to Change Your Clients' Retirement Math
We've all seen the studies – one seems to land on my desk once or twice a week. “Americans are living longer.” “Fewer have defined benefit pensions.” “The value of Social Security is shrinking.” “Boomers don't have enough money to retire comfortably.” “A retirement crisis is looming.”
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YIELD OF DREAMS: Active’s a Zero Sum Game… For ETFs Too?
Active ETFs have been making a big splash lately, especially with the recent launch of PIMCO’s Total Return ETF (ticker: TRXT).
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Please Please Me: Investor Satisfaction Flat, Survey Finds
Investors are not happier campers when it comes to their full service brokerage, according to the latest satisfaction study by J.D. Power and Associates.
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