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What top-performing investment strategists and portfolio managers are thinking about the latest market trends and how to build high-performing portfolios.
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By Janet LevauxLord, Abbett & Co. has announced that Robert Morris, the firm's chief investment officer, has retired effective March 31 with 35-plus years of investment industry...
April 29, 2007
Developing The New Products Needed For Boomer Payout PhaseThe boomers are coming. The boomers are here. By this time, almost all the players appreciate that aging demographics in the United States call for ...
April 12, 2007
Strategists or Tacticians?The investment advisor world can be divided into many subsets. There are wealth managers and investment advisors; big firms and smaller firms; older firms and newer firms; sole practitioners and multi-principal shops. But one of the biggest differentiators is in the area of investment management: specifically, active (or tactical) vs....
April 02, 2007
A Better Mousetrap?Charles Schwab launched three new index funds April 2 that are based on fundamental indexes rather than cap-weighted indexes such as the S&P 500. Fundamentally weighted indexes base inclusion in the index on a company's sales, cash flow, dividends, and book value, rather than on market cap, P/E, or valuation,...
April 01, 2007
Review Your ReviewBy now, you probably have received the performance numbers for the first quarter and are in the midst of setting up your appointments for your...
April 01, 2007
Wealth Is The Name of the GameI always enjoy Bob Clark's articles and found "The Name Game" (Clark at Large, November 2006) interesting. I do have another take on the matter,...
April 01, 2007
Bringing ETFs to 401(k)sIn mid-February, National Planning Corporation (NPC) announced the launch of a 401(k) retirement plan program designed to give small and mid-sized companies the ability to...
April 01, 2007
Upgrades-April 2007...First introduced in January, Fidelity Investments' new referral service, Wealth Advisor Solutions, will match high-net-worth investors with select RIAs who are Fidelity custody clients. Matches...