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February 01, 2007
UBS' Take on Fee Work: 'A Lot of Clients Want It'Marten Hoekstra, head of U.S. wealth management for UBS, gives his opinion on the New York Attorney General's recent lawsuit, acquisitions and plans for 2007....
February 01, 2007
Man on a MissionIf it ain't broke, don't fix it. Right? But if it does need fixing -- and some heartfelt TLC -- call on Kenneth M. Ross. He's...
February 01, 2007
The Science of InvestingFinance theory says: The only way to beat the market is by knowing what others don't. Few fight me on that. But in today's ?ber-connected...
February 01, 2007
Advisor Directed TrustsHow would you like to offer services akin to the nation's largest banks and trust companies -- with one key difference: You remain the central...
February 01, 2007
Benchmarking for DollarsWhen I lived in Washington, DC in the early 1980s, the fact that I was born in Russia almost always elicited an incredulous reaction. People...
February 01, 2007
The Next Economic CrisisAfter graduate school, I went to work for maverick Wall Street economist A. Gary Shilling. Gary was a follower of the Kondratieff Wave Theory, which...
February 01, 2007
Active PhilanthropyTwo years ago, a school serving 1,300 kids in a Managua, Nicaragua, barrio had one barely working computer, no library and no playground. Today, it...
February 01, 2007
How to Let GoIn a recent article, I explored the importance of identifying and then releasing inappropriate clients. This article will cover exactly how to let those clients...
February 01, 2007
Meet the ParaplannersAs if earning two bachelor's degrees in three years wasn't tough enough, industrious Adrienne Sadowski craved real-world work experience at the same time. So from...
January 24, 2007
State Street to Focus on SPDRs BrandingThe company which in 1993 introduced the first U.S. listed ETF (SPY) has built an enviable menu of ETFs and continues to receive strong asset flows into those products. As such, State Street has decid