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BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/21/2014
If you’ve been hiring, odds are you’ve stumbled across an embellishment or two. After all, a new CareerBuilder survey notes that 58% of hiring managers have caught a lie on a... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 8/20/2014
On the heels of the CFP’s ongoing debate about the definition of a “fee only” advisor and pending SEC and DOL rules on the definition of fiduciary, ThinkAdvisor editor-at-... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 8/19/2014
Two weeks, two acquisitions. RCAP, the parent of soon-to-be 11 IBDs with almost 10,000 reps including Cetera, has acquired Girard Securities and VSR. Girard has $10 billion in AUM and... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/19/2014
NFP reports that it has added 53 new advisors, all members of RPAG, one of the largest independent retirement plan consulting groups in the country. The announcement comes less than a month... Read More
BY Jeff Hemker | 8/18/2014
I recently renewed my monthly contribution to one of my favorite charities — Reading Is Fundamental (RIF). As I was reviewing some of RIF’s great programs, it made me think about how... Read More
BY John Adams | 8/14/2014
AllianceBernstein has announced the launch of AllianceBernstein Multi-Manager Select Retirement Funds, a multi-manager target date series to be co-managed with Morningstar Associates, LLC.... Read More
BY John Adams | 8/13/2014
LPL Financial has launched its new Worksite Financial Solutions website, developed primarily to increase plan participants’ confidence in their financial future. LPL’s objective with the... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 8/7/2014
The new Chief Operating Officer at Global Retirement Partners is Christopher Giles, the retirement plan consulting firm announced Aug. 6. Giles’ new role will be to broaden what Global... Read More
BY John Ortman | 7/28/2014
Is there good reason to fear robo-advisors? While Vanguard is getting traction with their $13 billion Vanguard Personal Advisor Services, and Schwab is preparing to step up to the... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 7/28/2014
It has been reported that three 401(k)Advisors staffers joined Bill Chetney’s newly formed Global Retirement Partners OSJ, which is affiliated with LPL, late last week. Earlier this month,... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 7/25/2014
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on supplying advisors and broker dealers with value-added services and tools for free by providers. But what’s their impact? A new study by Chatham,... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 7/24/2014
Claiming that he’s more hurt than angry with Financial Telesis founder Jim Williams for selling his firm to LPL, RPAG CEO Vince Giovinazzo said that his firm was scrambling to help RPAG members... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 7/23/2014
In another indication of how mainstream and important 401(k) plans have become, Bloomberg has jumped into the market, ranking the plans of the 250 largest companies. Using 2012 DOL data, reporters... Read More
BY John Ortman | 7/23/2014
Retirement-sector veteran Nevin Adams will join ASPPA next month to head its rapidly expanding media and marketing businesses, including NAPA Net and NAPA Net the Magazine. Adams has been a Portal... Read More
BY John Ortman | 7/18/2014
Joseph Dunbar has joined SageView Advisory Group’s not-for-profit team as an investment adviser based in the firm’s Boston office. He will focus on building out financial wellness... Read More
BY John Ortman | 7/15/2014
Are graft and fraud the next big thing for state pension plans? An industry segment already beset by massive underfunding, bankruptcy court proceedings and other litigation, politics and pension envy... Read More
BY John Iekel | 7/14/2014
More than one-third of RIAs have doubled their assets under management since 2009, according to a new Charles Schwab study. In “The Power of the Independent Advice Business Model,” Schwab... Read More
BY John Ortman | 7/10/2014
Opposition to the Department of Labor’s pending fiduciary definition rule among advisors continues to hold strong at 90 percent, according to a Financial Services Institute poll released July 9... Read More
BY John Iekel | 7/10/2014
The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has announced that its ERISA Advisory Council will be examining issues and considerations related to facilitating lifetime... Read More
BY John Adams | 7/7/2014
Guardian Retirement Solutions has appointed six new wholesalers to its 401(k) national sales team in order to meet growing market demand as they extend their reach across RIA, broker-dealer and the... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 7/7/2014
In another stunning move heralding more industry consolidation, LPL and Bill Chetney have agreed to acquire “certain” assets of Financial Telesis (FTI). As a result, Chetney will resign as president... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 6/30/2014
According to a new white paper by SEI and FP Transitions, most financial advisors think they have built a business, but what they have really built is a practice that’s likely to end when they retire... Read More
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