In the managed account market, what difference can fees make? This week Wealthcare Capital Management, an RIA and provider of wealth management advisory services in Richmond, Va., announced its new Unified Managed Household program will charge...
Two recent deals by aggregators for sizable registered investment advisors show how both sides can benefit from such mergers. Late Tuesday Focus Financial Partners said it had signed up Sapient Private Wealth Management of Eugene, Ore., a practice...
Clients with too much home equity and not enough retirement money can take advantage of record-low rates to shore up their savings and cut down their taxes.
We try to avoid politics in this journal, but this month we couldn't help it. Kristen French, our features editor, ventured downtown to Zuccotti Park and interviewed several protestors for the back page of this issue. (See page 112.) Kristen...
How rattled were people in the heat of the 2008 financial crisis? Gibson Capital LLC founder and author Roger C. Gibson recalled being asked by three or four clients whether the S&P 500 would drop to zero. Perhaps it wasn’t a lot of people, he...
Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) has been the very bedrock of investment management and, more specifically, portfolio construction and asset allocation, for decades. To oversimplify, one might explain MPT to clients this way: It is literally a...