Join Business Exchange
to access the most
relevant content for you,
filtered by like-minded
business professionals.
Learn more

Register for Beta

Only takes a moment with your LinkedIn ID

FINANCIAL ADVISERS

A financial adviser provides investment advice and financial planning services to individuals as well as businesses. Ideally, the financial adviser helps the client maintain the right asset allocation mix to reach goals such as saving for retirement or a college education. Financial advisers use stocks, bonds, mutual funds, REITS, options, futures, ETFs, and insurance products to meet the needs of their clients.

Financial Advisers is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Lauren Young. This topic contains 2,055 news and 2,227 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Financial Advisers. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Financial Advisers from like-minded professionals.

Most Active

add content

The most active stories in this topic based on user activity.

Survey: Millions Forced To Rethink Retirementmore

With the recession squeezing wages and holding back stock prices, millions of Americans are being forced to rethink...

Time Is Money more

Bernard Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme is estimated to have bilked investors out of $65 billion, was sentenced to 150 years...

Gang of wealthy pensioners kidnaps and tortures financial adviser who...more

A gang of wealthy pensioners kidnapped and tortured a financial adviser in Germany after he lost £2m of their savings...

Report: AIG Financial to be renamed SagePoint Financialmore

To separate itself from parent AIG, AIG Financial Advisors will be renamed SagePoint Financial Inc., Investment News...

Ga. Lawyer Used Elder Law Practice to Snare Ponzi Victimsmore

For five years, a Marietta, Ga., attorney who specialized in elder law arranged community workshops where he sought...

Planners Like Fiduciary Standardmore

The Obama administration is making clear it wants financial advisers of all stripes to be held to the same high...

Financial Advisor Cover Letter Samplemore

...this killer Financial Advisor Cover Letter  sample. All Financial Advisor...

Will BlackRock Be A Good Steward of the ETF Business?more

Is it a good thing or a bad thing for exchange-traded funds that BlackRock has emerged as the buyer for the Barclays...

Racial Differences Affect Retirement Planningmore

African-American investors planning for retirement might want to boost their stock holdings, even though the markets...

Teaching household finances to spoiled kidsmore

Donna Kornegay used to routinely take Dalyn, 14, on shopping sprees. Now the teen must use her allowance.

Boomer Emotions can Affect Financial Decisionsmore

The field of behavioral finance seeks to explain the set of psychological biases that affect people's investment...

Financial Advisers: New Rules for Tough Times 2009more

BusinessWeek asks top advisers what they've learned and how they're navigating the tough markets. Plus, readers share...

Shock And Awemore

BlackRock’s $13.5 billion deal raises the valuation bar. ETF and index people the world 'round are smiling today. $13.

The Small Business Perspective: R2--Why You Need a Retirement Planmore

Who cares about perks during a recession? The recession is not going to last for ever. By implementing a retirement...

Who’ll Care for Aging Adults? Big Question, Few Answersmore

For the past few months, a friend cared for her mother through the final stages of ovarian cancer under a best case...

Insensitive advice « attn:money - A community weblog for people with...more

Here’s an example of bad ADD advice to a 25-year-old college grad who sounds like his ADD (which may be the cause of...

Brokerages Drop Fees to Retain Top Clientsmore

The battle on Wall Street for top-producing stockbrokers is turning into a gold mine for some of their clients.

Employers Are Divided Over Adequacy of 401(k)smore

Employers are evenly split between those who say their 401(k) plans can provide adequate retirement savings for...

Small Businesses Considering Eliminating 401(k) Matchmore

Nearly half of small businesses said they may have to reduce or stop matching contributions. While the majority of...

Financial Advice: Worth the Price?more

How valuable is your financial adviser? After seeing even carefully crafted portfolios devastated by the market...

Most Experienced Independent Financial Advisersmore

To find the most experienced financial advisers, BusinessWeek teamed up with the Paladin Registry, a service to vet...

Financial Advisers' Best Ideas: Insights from veteran advisersmore

Here are the best ideas from 14 veteran advisers.

Taking Control more

The financial crisis has battered not only investors’ nest eggs; in many cases it has battered their trust.

Parents Put Child’s College Plans Ahead of their Retirement more

A majority of parents (61 percent) are not letting the recession change their plans for their children's college...

Allocation Funds Are on the Risemore

Before last year's multi-market meltdown, many investors divided their assets using a rule of thumb that put 60% in...

Top Sources: Financial Advisers

  • SNL: All FIG Articles
  • Cityfeeds.com - New York
  • BusinessWeek
  • images.businessweek.com
  • bwnt.businessweek.com
  • online.wsj.com
  • online.barrons.com
  • Forbes.com
  • libertiny.com
  • investmentnews.com

Most Active Users in this Topic

see all contributors...

Add article to Financial Advisers

x close

Paste a URL

Your content has been added. See my activity.

Checking if this item has been added before...

OK! You're the first one to add this article.

This topic:
Financial Advisers
Additional topics:
Financial Advisers
cancel

Adding article to topic, please be patient...

Report comment contains invalid characters. ()
cancel
Search Cancel