Location: San Francisco Assets under Advisement: $1.3 billion Production: N/A Expertise: Socially responsible investing Most advisors don't get socially responsible investing, says Thomas Van Dyck, senior vice president at SRI Wealth Management...
Location: New York City Assets under Advisement: $5.5 billion Production: $5.7 million Expertise: Faith-based investing The Catholic Church is deeply hierarchical, but broad discretion is left to member organizations in the area of investing...
For advisors who were trying to diversify stock-heavy portfolios, 2011 was a year for the record books. While some assets proved to be unusually powerful diversifiers, other investments provided little diversification at all. The unusual pattern...
Advisor interest in social media is accelerating across multiple channels, new research by Registered Rep. shows. The two polls of more than 1,400 Rep. readers conducted just six months apart in September 2011 and in March 2012 showed the share of...
Repeat Offender Brian Raymond Callahan was a repeat offender, as is so often the case with white collar crime. In 2009, the Financial Regulatory Industry Authority barred him from associating with any FINRA member, so he went the investment...
Parents the world over worry about their children, particularly their ability to have success in their careers. Wealthy parents who plan to pass on their business or financial holdings to their sons and daughters face unique concerns and...
Every year we conduct an in-depth study of affluent investors, and the insights garnered from our 2012 Affluent Investor Study likely are going to change how financial advisors go about their business. We are witnessing two changes that are so...
In the week of Mar. 12, the iShares Barclays 20 Year Treasury ETF (Ticker: TLT), which tracks longer-dated paper, fell by 4.1 percent. That's equivalent to a 500-point plus plunge in the Dow, according to Barron's. Our own Stan Luxenberg sent me...