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Interesting article at SmartMoney entitled, As Market Grew Volatile, Advisors Disappeared. Tough times for financial advisors at banks and large brokerage houses. There were 369,928 retail financial advisors at the end of the first quarter of 2010, down from 434,479 the same period last year, a decline of about 15%, according to the Financial Research [...]
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Wikinvest: What it is and where it’s going Don’t get me wrong. I really like the guys at Wikinvest. I’ve written a lot about how well their crowdsourced information and annotatable charts kicks the pants off of more static resources. I’ve also contended that the way Wikinvest deals with investment data is better by leaps [...]
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When was the last time you looked at a financial product (and no, you can’t include CDS or RMBS in this question) and were wowed. It’s been awhile for me (I don’t get out much). Well, it got me thinking. Earlier this week I went into a restroom and was surprised to find — not [...]
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Before I start — please check out Tradestreaming.com — the site for my new book (launching soon). Please sign up via email and/or RSS to stay plugged in to this conversation. I’m going to begin migrating my blogging activities to that site as time unfurls (or furls, means the same). So it’s definitely important we [...]
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eBay of investment advisors, kaChing announced today that they’re providing servicing of IRA plans. That means that someone with an IRA of at least $10k and the desire to have kaChing investment managers take a crack at managing his portfolio, can now do it.
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It’s always a good idea to check out what’s being advertised to see what the financial product firms are pushing. Some of this is horse-leading-the-cart stuff, but sometimes financial products are developed based on demand for such things. Looking at advertising in the financial industry is a momentum-driven way to look at trends — today’s, [...]
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From the Yahoo Finance blog today: Today the Yahoo! Finance team rolled out new Yahoo! Finance sites in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore. Already in 20+ countries around the world, this is the first wave of a global Yahoo! Finance platform that is rolling out across the globe. This global platform now enables new countries [...]
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