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1 INTRODUCTION Over the past several decades, we have observed large and persistent disparities in per capita real income across countries. For example, based on our data sample of 80 [...]

Intentionally or not, many workers in the United States are classified as independent contractors (IC). In classifying a worker as an IC instead of an employee, putative employers can eliminate [...]

Byline: Robert Steyer As employers and defined contribution plan fiduciaries navigate and negotiate the terms of cyber insurance policies, they also must deal with the fine print of their agreements [...]

Are you interested in a technique that will engage borrowers in a productive underwriting discussion unlike anything you've tried before? Are you also not a big fan of the Uniform [...]

One of a contractor's BIGGEST COSTS of doing business is insurance. In this three-part series, Journal contributor Dev Strischek discusses the basic insurance needs of contractors and how to stress [...]

Byline: Bruce Kelly The industry is coming off a few relatively strong years and therefore as a group appears to be in better shape than it was in following the [...]

Byline: Margarida Correia Family-focused financial wellness campaigns stood out at Pensions & Investments' 26th annual Eddy Awards. John Hancock Life Insurance Co. USA, winner of a third-place Eddy in the [...]

MANAGERS WITH 20 TO 49 EMPLOYEES AAM Insurance Investment Management Chicago AUM: $25.5 billion Employees: 49 Years won: 2017, 2018, 2019 POPULAR PERKS: -- Promotes an annual employee golf outing [...]

MANAGERS WITH 100 TO 499 EMPLOYEES Highland Capital Management Dallas AUM: $9.9 billion Employees: 125 Years won: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 POPULAR PERKS: -- Provides free lunch and other meals [...]

In the last two weeks, Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., have floated legislative proposals that would allow retirement savers to raid their 401(k) plans to pay for [...]

Master limited partnerships have rebounded this year, after a challenging 2015 that included lower energy prices. The Alerian MLP Index has recovered significantly from its lows earlier this year, and [...]

When it comes to investing in the energy space, most of the focus of late has understandably been on the commodity downturn that began in 2015. As a short-term effect, [...]

Edward Jones' managing partner Jim Weddle joined the firm as an intern when he was studying for his MBA. Forty years later he oversees roughly 14,500 financial advisors in the [...]

When Morgan Stanley superstar advisor Ami K. Forte met high-profile billionaire Roy M. Speer at a ritzy Florida party in 1999, the encounter had every hallmark of a match made [...]

Financial planner Mike Haubrich recently faced the problem of financial incapacity when a widowed 85-year old client came to his office with some questions about gifting. The client was accompanied [...]

My husband Gil and I thought we'd done everything right when it comes to end-of-life planning. We had up-to-date wills, powers of attorney, and advance directives for health care. But [...]

Symbol Expense Options Avg Daily Ratio Volume ** Broad Market Stocks IWV iShares Russell 3000 ETF 0.20% Yes 211,400 ITOT iShares Core S&P Total 0.07% Yes 292,183 U.S. Stock Market [...]

The dust is still settling from the recent Department of Labor fiduciary rules and most people I talk with don't know quite what to make of it. Of course, that [...]

So be it: the Department of Labor released its fiduciary rule on April 6, 2016, and closed the supposed retirement-advice loophole. But in mandating what it deemed that the Employee [...]

In our latest interview with top leaders of the wealth management industry, Research spoke with Paul Reilly, CEO of Raymond James --Financial, about his career, his company and his philosophy. [...]

As a financial advisor, money, undeniably, is your world. But in the broader culture, talking about money from a personal perspective remains a big taboo. People feel shame about money: [...]

Plenty of services have been disrupted by technology. When was the last time you used a travel agent? How many of us use tax software instead of an accountant? Is [...]

John Taft, chief executive officer of RBC Wealth Management-U.S. in Minneapolis, oversees approximately 1,900 advisors with about $264 billion of assets under advisement (as of late March 2015). Research recently [...]

YOU'VE BEEN AN ACCOMPLISHED solo financial advisor for years, working hard and building a successful practice at the wirehouse where you've been employed for, perhaps, your entire career. Yet something's [...]

JP MORGAN CHASE & CO. CHIEF EXECUTIVE Jamie Dimon fired one of the first shots in the financial services industry's war on computer hackers after a 2 014 cyberattack on [...]

The president of Baird Private Wealth Management says the firm's employee ownership has opened a world of advantages MIKE SCHROEDER IS PRESIDENT OF BAIRD PRIVATE Wealth Management in Milwaukee. Since [...]

IN JUST 10 YEARS, THREE OUT OF FOUR WORKERS WILL BE members of the millennial generation born between 1980 and 1996. You may have noticed that millennials are different than [...]

Clients are showing interest in non-traditional funding techniques; advisors can help them understand the risks and benefits THE GREAT AMERICAN SEARCH FOR YIELD HAS LED MANY CLIENTS TO SEEK investment [...]

WHAT PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES ARE best suited to handle a possible bear market? That question has been looming larger for advisors and investors alike. When the U.S. stock market plunged [...]

Paul Hatch of UBS Wealth Management Americas talks with Research about how major financial institutions can thrive in a challenging 21st century PAUL HATCH, HEAD OF ADVICE AND SOLUTIONS, UBS [...]

Some master limited partnerships have business models that support distributions and expansion, even in challenging times. To best grasp the diverse factors affecting midstream MLPs today, we spoke with three [...]

THERE'S NOT A CLIENT TODAY WHO ISN'T CONCERNED about wealth preservation, and astute financial advisors are nimbly helping investors meet this critical need. Indeed, since the global financial meltdown, clients [...]

WITH MORE THAN $700 MILLION IN CLIENT ASSETS under advisement, three Merrill Lynch Wealth Management advisors and their staff broke away from the wirehouse in 2014 to form an independent [...]

WEALTH MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY veteran Shelley O'Connor is co-head of wealth management for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Purchase, New York. Prior to her promotion in early January, O'Connor was managing [...]

I conoclast, super-bear, doomsayer--legendary money manager Robert Rodriguez has been labeled all of these. The record shows, however, that this famed independent thinker who lives five to 10 years in [...]

IN THIS NEW SERIES RESEARCH MAGAZINE talks with the heads of leading investment and wealth management firms about their careers and the key issues they see facing the industry. We [...]

In the July 20, 2015 issue of The New Yorker magazine, Kathryn Schulz laid out evidence that the Pacific Northwest United States has experienced a series of 41 devastating earthquakes [...]

Welcome to Research magazine's Advisor Hall of Fame, now in its 25th year. This eagerly anticipated annual feature has become a benchmark of excellence in our industry and an example [...]

IN THE ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE WORLD Of FINANCIAL SERVICES, THERE FLOURISHES A dynamic, nurturing, niche: the parent-child financial advisor legacy practice. With ever-multiplying FA teams at wirehouses and large regional BDs, along [...]

A 65-YEAR old American male has a 10% chance of living to the age of 96. Let's say he wants to fund $100,000 of spending during his 96th year of [...]

WHEN THE CHINESE STOCK MARKET CRASHED in August, plunging 11 % in one week and taking the world's markets on its turbulent downward ride, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management senior advisor [...]

ATES OF GROWTH IN EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS, OR ETFs, have trounced the growth of mutual fund assets over the last decade. Except for retirement. Mutual funds remain the dominant investment [...]

Potential benefits of adding Sector SPDR ETFs to your portfolio include: * Undiluted exposure to a specific sector of the S&P 500 * The all-day tradability of stocks * The [...]

LIFE-TRANSFORMING CAREER SHIFT IS BOLD, challenging, complex, scary--and ultimately (knock on wood) wonderful. For a financial advisor breaking away from the shelter of a wirehouse, such change is seismic. Happily, [...]

AS THE EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND MARKETPLACE CONTINUES ITS EXPLOSIVE growth, wirehouses and other large broker-dealers have emerged as a formidable rival channel to the registered investment advisors that historically have been [...]

Byline: Greg Iacurci Financial advisers lamenting the return to low interest rates have one reason to appreciate the move: Falling rates can help wealthy clients transfer more assets tax-free to [...]

Byline: Ryan W. Neal Financial advisers promote services like 'comprehensive financial planning' and 'financial wellness' to differentiate themselves from digital advice startups and justify their fees, but now at least [...]

Byline: Greg Iacurci Variable and indexed annuities are lambasted in some circles as being high-cost insurance products, with all-in annual expenses often exceeding 3%-4%. Yet investors may be paying even [...]

Byline: Greg Iacurci The Securities and Exchange Commission caused concern among the financial advice and insurance communities last month when it published an inaccurate investor bulletin about indexed annuities. The [...]

Byline: Greg Iacurci Attractive annuity yields are in increasingly short supply as long-term interest rates have declined and the likelihood of even more downward pressure persists. Let's look at multiyear [...]