Planning and Advice

Employers’ duties to pension plan members

(July 2008) The financial services industry is familiar with the decline in the number of defined benefit pension plans in the private sector and the growth in the number of defined contribution plans. In many cases employers are abandoning defined benefit plans, primarily to place a cap on their contributions and reduce funding liabilities. Employees […]

By Richard Austin |July 22, 2008

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Money laundering and coping with compliance

(July 2008) If a scruffy guy named Anthony staggered into your office and plunked a duffel bag full of cash on your desk demanding to buy life insurance, you’d quietly excuse yourself and go looking for the manager. Unfortunately, today’s white-collar criminals aren’t so easy to spot. To bring the financial sector more in line […]

By Kanupriya Vashisht |July 22, 2008

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In turbulent times, it pays to think Citadel

The Citadel Group of Funds has the answer to market turbulence. In fact, we have a dozen answers as in our 12 closed-end income funds. Each has a perfect track record of distribution payments since inception. Each is professionally managed by independent advisors including Fiera Capital, Bloom Investment Counsel, Galileo Global Equity and Shaunessy Investment […]

By Staff |July 22, 2008

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Can someone else find your clients?

(July 2008) There are no rules that say you need to do your own prospecting. In fact, if prospecting isn’t your thing — in truth, it can be a significant stumbling block for many advisors — there are ways to get someone else to do it for you. U.K.-based advisor Bhupinder Anand, managing director of […]

By Mark Noble |July 10, 2008

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