Investment Platforms
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By Staff WriterRecent stock market volatility and declining yields on CDs and other fixed- income investments are bad news for two reasons: first, they erode client retirement assets and income and second, they unleash more and increasingly devious investment
January 27, 2009
New presidential administration offers greater chance for 'green' investingThe United States is ripe for "green" investing, according to a second annual survey released yesterday by global investment firm Allianz Global Investors. Seventy-eight percent...
January 02, 2009
B OF A, MERRILL LYNCH COMPLETE MERGER (JAN. 2, 2009)"We created this new organization because we believe that wealth management and corporate and investment banking represent significant growth opportunities, especially when combined with our leading c
January 01, 2009
Marketing in a DownturnIf you are retaining 100% of your clients these days, you have a compelling story to tell. Consider that The Wall Street Journal reported on...
January 01, 2009
Polishing Your ReputationHow do you strengthen as well as preserve your practice's reputation, when your broker-dealer is having "issues"? Everybody is having issues - virtually no one and...
January 01, 2009
Green Investing in Trying TimesI'm sure that every generation of Americans has faced a crisis that gave them good reason to embrace Thomas Paine's revolutionary quotation of 1776. In...
December 12, 2008
Some financial industry sectors will fare better in '09No sector of the securities and investments industry will be exempt from regulation, according to a new TowerGroup research report. However, the electronic trading and...