Measuring the Value of Providing Good Financial Advice

Most of us tend to think that planning on investment portfolios for attainment of goals is a one time job. However it is not true; we all need to review our investment portfolios on a regular basis and also take the help of professional financial ...

Bettina Tratz-Ryan urges communities and planners to think more holistically when planning to integrate electric vehicles into their urban transportation systems. There are different approaches in changing traffic patterns and transportation in ...

The new normal: Codifying superior client experience in wealth management. Source: Barclays Wealth and Investment Management A third of advisers believe clients want wealth management firms to be a 'holistic facilitator for their life goals' ...

At the beginning of the week we heard of the growth that is happening in the UK housing market except for two regions, Northern Ireland and North East England. Why not in the North East? It is probably because this region continues to suffer from ...

CHICAGO - Financial services firms and advisors are relying on new technology and enhanced training to to take a more holistic financial planning approach with clients. "We recently, in 2012, completely overhauled our technology platform largely to ...

Six parameters to help you to find the winners. It is plain wisdom that to invest in a diversified equity fund, you need to pick the right one that suits your requirement the best. In reality it is easier said than done. When there are more than hundred equity funds claiming best returns in their schemes, it is quite puzzling to zero in on one. And the self-seeking mutual fund agents who survive only by cooking the figures further confound the problem. To cut through the confusion, you need to ...

Veterans are superbly trained, diverse, innovative, reliable, hardworking, dedicated citizens, and many possess skills that are highly transferable. Despite all this, an unemployment gap remains between the post-9/11 generation of veterans and ...

Lynda and Stewart Resnick are world-class philanthropists. In the past they have invested their charitable dollars in organizations and people whom they believed could get the job done, whatever that job may have been. You may recall that they ...

By Jeffrey L. Watson, CPA/CFP®, principal, WealthCare Financial Group LLC, 1st Global Mark Twain once said, The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. With 1st Global, weve talked about our ...