How can advisors take advantage of today's trends in wealth management? One way is to compare yourself to your peer growth and, based on this information, devise ways that you can distinguish yourself and your business.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 16:56

Millennials are often painted as lazy, entitled, impatient and unfocused -- but a group of college students with whom I recently spent a weekend dispelled all of those stereotypes and gave me hope for the future.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 16:56

Are you living beyond your means? The reality is almost half of America???127.5 million people???are liquid-asset poor and may not even realize it.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55

Everyone is in sales. There is not a point in your day when you don?t have to convince someone you are worth their time. It doesn?t matter if you are an engineer, doctor, lawyer, or??marketer; you have to sell. This isn?t easy for most people. It takes plenty of practice to master the art of ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55

Editor?s note: Catch the Latest Happenings with Kitco Video News! (Kitco News) ? Gold futures, already under pressure lately from indications of an improving U.S. economy, extended its downtrend Thursday on signs of weakness elsewhere around the globe. In particular, soft manufacturing data in China fueled worries about demand from this key commodity consumer, sending ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55

PatentlyApple reports today of a new Apple patent relating to a "haptic feedback layer" in touch screens. This would significantly improve the "touch resolution" of iOS devices, in effect turning the vibrate function into a fully addressable tactile layer.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55

In his fight for re-election this fall, President Barack Obama will have support from the unlikeliest of quarters: Karl Rove, former top aide to George W. Bush. Writing on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal today, Rove, normally a staunch partisan and Republican loyalist, declared, "Mr. Obama deserves re-election for restoring America to prosperity after a recession." Further enumerating his accomplishments, Rove added, "Mr. Obama ended the Iraq War and...Osama bin Laden was killed on his watch." It was the surprise of the political season, but maybe it shouldn't have been.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 20:25

A common complaint that I receive from clients is that sales people do not seem to be hungry these days.?? Despite being praised, spiffed, cajoled, or threatened sales people do not seem to be motivated to prospect, sell the most profitable or strategic products, deeply penetrate accounts, and tend go for the "easy sale".?? Sales ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 20:25

More information doesn't equal better returns for most investors.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 20:25

Investors may consider using extreme caution in relying on writings that are definitive in nature such as, 'Apple stock will reach...' The word 'will' connotes definitiveness that I have not seen in my 30 years in the stock market.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55