It would seem pretty well established that the Financial services industry is a people-intensive business, particularly in investment advisory. When you look at potentially hiring someone to guide you on life’s financial journey, it’s the people – their knowledge, experience and ethical standing – that forms the basis as to their suitability. After all, you are hiring someone that has a specialized skill set, where you rely on their judgement for guidance in order to achieve

Our resident bond guru and CIO, Rick Daskin, offers his thoughts on the role of the credit rating agencies in an article published in ThinkAdvisor. The article can be found here. A copy of the article is below: Credit Ratings: 3 Mistakes Investors Make Rating agencies have come under fire ever since the financial crisis of 2008-'09. In fact, recently there have been some legal settlements between the U.S. government and rating agencies in this area of the law. Some of the c