The Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) is working on new guidelines to address analyst integrity. Charlottesville, Va.-based AIMR confers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation to its...
When Travelers Group and Citicorp merged in 1998, Travelers chief Sandy Weill crowed about the cross-selling potential. Back then, reps worried about impending sales pressure, but they say now that the anxiety was...
How much can clients expect from you? They can expect your wisdom and guidance in developing and following a discipline. And when events create short-term stresses, they can also expect an extra dose of empathy and...
The new set of proposed regulations for minimum required distributions (MRDs), issued in January by the Internal Revenue Service, has dramatically simplified the process of withdrawing assets from IRAs and retirement...
A broker who suffered retaliation by his firm won nearly $28 million in an arbitration decision. Of that amount, $25 million was punitive damages a record punitive award. In August, an NASD arbitration panel found...
The Web site of Investor's Business Daily (IBD) is available only to subscribers of the paper. Register at www.investors.com and remember your user name and password you'll need them every time you log on. Top and...
Ibbotson has sent out to financial advisers an e-mail containing a presentation-quality slide showing what the market has done after previous tragic events. Reps who did not receive the e-mail can call Ibbotson at 800...
As we were putting this issue to bed, the terrorists struck. At this point, there is nothing to add to the heart-wrenching stories of human travail we have already seen and heard. There are many heartwarming stories...
