Web Seminars

A Strategy for Up, Down and Sideways Markets
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
4:00 PM EDT

In today’s market setting, an active long/short strategy may be worth considering. When the market begins to reach fair value and stocks become overpriced, ICON believes the ability to play both long and short sides can add alpha, and ICON Advisers has five years of experience in managing a long/short portfolio.

This free web seminar will explore the features of a long/short strategy and contrast the strategy of long/short mutual funds with hedge funds. Attendees will learn the advantages and disadvantages of investing both short and long and how a long/short portfolio can adapt when the market goes up, down or sideways. Register today and join ICON on Oct. 3, 2007 at 4 pm EST to learn more about implementing a long/short investment strategy. Sponsored by ICON Advisers, Inc., a valuation-based asset manager that utilizes a quantitative,bottom-up, go-anywhere Multi Cap discipline to identify market themes in the U.S. and overseas markets.

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Managing Concentrated Stock Positions
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
2:00 PM EST

This webinar has been specifically designed for the investment advisor who custodies large single-stock positions for his client. Three unique options strategies targeting these holdings are fully explained. These strategies can be utilized when the client wishes to either hedge or derive income for stocks that are not part of his advisors model portfolio. View this Web Seminar

Podcasts

• Islamic Investing
  The Amana Funds invest according to Islamic principles and that means little to no financial sector allocation according to their portfolio manager, Nick Kaiser. The funds have outperformed consistently. Kaiser talks with IA's Kate McBride about how he invests with guidance from Islamic scholars.

• Speaker of the Month: Beth Chapman
  Publicity expert Beth Chapman talks with staff editor Kara Stapleton about how advisors can market themselves to non-traditional audiences, particularly gays, lesbians and unmarried couples.

• Money Funds & the Markets
  Bruce Bent, father of the money market mutual fund, talks in Part I about how recent market turbulence will affect them
• Money Funds & Advisors
  In Part II of our exclusive podcast, Bruce Bent explains what advisors should look for in their clients' money funds.
• Experience and Flexibility
  In this exclusive IA podcast, John Rogers, Jr., founder and CEO of Ariel Capital Management, talks with senior editor Kate McBride about how his firm got started 25 years ago and how it's continuing to thrive.
• Speaker of the Month: Ross Levin
  Distribution Planning
  Ross Levin, president of Accredited Investors, Inc., tells staff editor Kara P. Stapleton, that people that do the best job of accumulating money may have the hardest time spending it in this podcast preview of his upcoming session at the FPA annual conferenece in Seattle, September 8-11.

• Speaker of the Month: Joni Youngwirth
  Joni Youngwirth, the practice management expert at Commonwealth Financial Network,reveals the 10 factors that she has found essential to running a well-oiled advisory practice.

• Speaker of the Month: Dandan Zhu
  A Big-Picture View of Global Investing
  Dandan Zhu addresses some of the issues advisors should be aware of when it comes to global investing.

• More With Mary Schapiro
  In this second of a three part series of podcasts with NASD CEO Mary Schapiro, she discusses fiduciary issues, challenges for broker/dealers, and changing demographics of the investing public with IA Senior Editor Kate McBride.

• B/D Roundtable
  Senior Editor Kate McBride hosted a roundtable conference call with members of the IA Broker/Dealer Advisory Board, who shared their thoughts on a number of issues facing the broker/dealer community. In the first of three podcasts, Brian Murphy, president and CEO of Woodbury Financial; Barry Knight, president of NEXT Financial; Ralph DeVito, president of The Investment Center; and Scott Yamamura, group president of Contemporary Financial Solutions start off with a couple of topics on the minds of most B/D execs margins and recruiting.

• At The Helm
  NASD CEO Mary Schapiro on the merger of that organization and NYSE into one super-regulator and the harmonization of their two rule books into one set of rules for all broker/dealers.

• Speaker of the Month: Michael Kitces
  Helping advisors deal with their clients' existing annuities will be the object of a talk by Michael Kitces, director of financial planning at Pinnacle Advisory Group at the FPA Nor Cal Conference in late May. He discusses what he'll be covering with Staff Editor Kara Stapleton in this IA podcast.

• Opening Day
  Chuck Akre talks with Senior Editor Kate McBride about re-opening the $1.5 billion FBR Small Cap Fund.

• From the IA 25
  John Iachello, COO of Pershing Advisor Solutions talks about operating inefficiencies he sees affecting independent advisors and offers some suggestions for fixing them.

• Speaker of the Month: Susan Hirshman
  Six Risks to Wealth Preservation
  Speaker of the month Susan Hirshman will be addressing the top six issues that put wealth preservation at risk when she addresses the IMCA Spring Professional Development Conference. She outlines those issues to IA Staff Editor Kara Stapleton in this exclusive podcast.

• Trends in SMAs
  Prima Capital's J. Gibson Watson III talks with IA's Kate McBride about trends in separately managed accounts and why the winners of the 2007 SMA Awards stood out from the crowd.

• Alternatives to annuities?
  Harold Evensky talks about the retirement distribution conundrum
  What can advisors do to generate cash flow to meet clients' retirement needs? Is there an alternsative to annuities? To get some answers, IA's Kate McBride talked with Harold Evensky, president of Coral Gables, Florida-based Evensky & Katz and author, with his partner Deena Katz, of 'Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution,' (Bloomberg Press, 2006).

• Speaker of the Month: Scott Wentsel
  Scott Wentsel, senior portfolio manager of Ibbotson Associates on retirement income funds, his scheduled topic at the Ibbotson Asset Allocation Conference, March 8 & 9 in Miami.

• Retirement Income
  Mitch Politzer of Ameritas Direct talks to Editor Jamie Green about retirement income, annuities, and how reinsurers are handling the risk of guaranteed riders on VAs.

• John Simmers, the new chairman of the Financial Services Institute, and president of ING Advisors Network, discusses the challenges facing independent broker/dealers in this two-part podcast. In part one, Simmers tells IA's Kate McBride about the FSI's 2007 agenda and explores the regulatory landscape in light of the NYSE-NASD merger. In part two, the topic is representatives - where new ones are coming from, what kinds of licenses and registrations they hold, and the new services independent B/Ds are using to entice them to join and stay in the fold.

• Speaker of the Month: Rebecca Pomering
  Moss Adams's Rebecca Pomering on learning from the most successful firms
  In our first Speaker of the Month podcast, Rebecca Pomering of Moss Adams outlines what she plans to cover in her presentation on learning from the most successful firms at the NAPFA Advanced Planners Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, February 23-25.

• Lincoln Anderson, LPL
  Intrigued by LPL Chief Economist Lincoln Anderson's thoughts on the economy and the markets in 2007 heard at the Advisor Summit?

• Liz Ann Sonders on the Mid-Term Elections, the Fourth Quarter and Early '07
  A day-after the election conversation with Schwab's chief investment strategist.

• Rob Arnott on Fundamental Indexing
  The chairman of Research Affiliates explains why equal-weighting is superior to weighting indexes by market capitalization.

• Broker/Dealers of the Year
  Winning B/D execs address the challenges and opportunities facing their segment of the industry.

• Roger Ibbotson on Asset Allocation
  Some advice from the founder of Ibbotson Associates in this exclusive IA Podcast.

• The Next Generation
  The IA Leaders Council on finding, recruiting and nurturing talented young professionals