Craig Callahan, president and founder, ICON Advisers, a value manager based in Denver, is bullish despite the recent 16 percent drop from the April highs to the early July lows. Recently, Registered Rep. editor sat down for lunch with Craig to get...

With a rocky economic recovery, millions of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, and sovereign debt crises in Europe, what is there to be happy about? Plenty, if you were one of the value managers at Wednesday’s panel discussion...

Registered investment advisors report that their clients are closing their wallets and watching their dimes and quarters. A survey commissioned by Charles Schwab says that 32 percent of advisors cite “frugal spending habits” as the new...

Dr. Marc Faber, who predicted the 1987 crash and the recent financial crisis, is predictably gloomy. Buy farmland, gold and head into the country to avoid a "dirty" war, he told a conference. For more, please go to VonAldo.com, the blog of...

It’s earnings season, and consensus analysts’ estimates are predicting a 184.2 percent jump in earnings for the S&P 500 companyies in Q4 over a year ago. Obviously, Q4 earnings have an easy bogey, since Q4 2008 earnings were pathetic...

If the current economic and investment climate aren’t enough to stimulate conversation with your high net worth clients, you may want to add “estate taxes” to the list of ongoing discussion topics.

Each December analysts at Raymond James pick a list of stocks its will likely “produce above-average price appreciation over the next 55 weeks.” This year’s list contains 14 stocks that Raymond James analysts say should somehow...