They didn't get to "Talk to Chuck," but attendees of the 2007 Schwab IMPACT conference did get a chance to talk to Walt Bettinger, president and chief operating officer, as well as Charles Goldman, executive vice president of Schwab Institutional...
Foreign companies are certainly thumbing their noses at U.S. exchanges these days. The number of American Depository Receipts listed on U.S. exchanges peaked in 2001 at over 600, and has been in decline ever since, according to a report from...
About the current credit market turmoil, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in early September, The behavior in what we are observing in the last seven weeks is identical in many respects to what we saw in 1998, what we saw in the...
Financial stocks have understandably led the market down during the recent credit-related correction. But the group has also recently led in another area: insider buying. In July and August, executives and directors in this much-beleaguered sector...
Millions of investors have piled into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over the past decade. Assets in the funds have grown from $65 billion in 2000 to $488 billion today, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund trade group...
Think for a moment about your affluent clients and their centers-of-influence. As you scroll through these images in the theater of your mind, try to assess your marketplace equity. If is your initial response to this term, you are not alone. But...
It's a fact: The biggest financial advisors, in terms of assets under management, are wirehouse advisors. Actually, when we began this top advisor list back in September 2002, only a couple of spots were filled by regionals (Legg Mason, for...
Many years ago our research on the affluent led us to investigate wealth management teams. We turned our focus to teams simply because it became obvious that it was difficult (if not impossible) to manage the entirety of an affluent client's...
Two years ago, Tom Lydon, a small independent advisor running an 11-year-old practice, launched a blog about Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Now, he's wondering how to expand that effort without hurting his ability to work with his clients. For...