Betsy Riley

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Help Wanted
Feb 01, 2002
As much of the nation reeled from fresh layoffs late last year, SolomonEdwardsGroup was busily recruiting financial professionals in south Florida. In little more than a month, the executive search firm filled 22 jobs...
The Cobbler's Children
Feb 01, 2002
One would think firms that give financial advice would have great returns on their own employees' savings plans. Sadly, no. According to a report titled Reinventing Retirement Income in America from the National...
Manager Profile: True Value
Feb 01, 2002
The year 1974 would have to rank up there as one of the least auspicious years to start a money management firm. After all, the U.S. economy discovered a new phenomenon stagflation and the stock market reflected that...
Arbitration Cases Rise
Jan 01, 2002
It was a record-breaking year for arbitration cases, according to the National Association of Securities Dealers. In spite of the fact that investors' overall satisfaction with their brokers sits at 91 percent (see...
Unloading No-Loads and Courting Reps
Jan 01, 2002
For most of the 1990s, no-load mutual funds had no trouble selling directly to individual investors. But that was during a raging bull market. These days, mutual fund companies' phones have gone quiet, and the money...
A Profile of the Registered Rep
Jan 01, 2002
By now wirehouse brokers and other advisors have heard repeatedly the drumbeat of the new order in their world: the paradigm shift to a fee-based industry in which clients are steered into individually managed...
Surfing the Net with Advisors in Mind
Jan 01, 2002
World Investor Link, owned by U.K.-based WILink.com, provides one-stop viewing of financial information about 2,100 publicly traded companies and 50 fund families. Advisors can tap into annual reports, fund...