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RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 13, 2013
Tackling online accounts for Social Security a pain

The Social Security Administration last year stopped mailing annual estimated-benefit statements to workers 25 and older, a service it began in 1999

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 12, 2013
In Washington, policy proposals target retirement plans

Rethinking incentives for saving in tax-deferred accounts

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
EQUITIES MAY 12, 2013
Two diverging paths to income

Two advisers, two approaches to building wealth while preserving the nest egg

By Jeff Benjamin
FINTECH MAY 12, 2013
Savant Capital takes its advice online

By Liz Skinner
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 12, 2013
Deal to go private knotted for NFP

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 12, 2013
Moving from wirehouses pays off

By JKEPHART
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 12, 2013
Tax risk: Trust gains have additional levy

Experts are just getting their arms around a little-publicized wrinkle in the 2012 law.

By Darla Mercado
FINTECH MAY 12, 2013
Need a social-media maven? Try your intern

By AOSTERLAND
FINTECH MAY 12, 2013
A random — but valuable — chat

A random meeting at the Envestnet | Tamarac confab leads to an interesting discussion about investing, trading and being proactive. Davis D. Janowski explains.

By Janowski Davis
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 12, 2013
Flexibility key to retirement planning

A safe withdrawal rate changes with market conditions and the lifestyle goals of the client

By David B. Loeper
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAY 12, 2013
Finra fines 3 firms $900K for suspicious trading

Money laundering, lack of supervision cited by regulatory agency.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
FINTECH MAY 12, 2013
Financial firms using LinkedIn for content more than jobs

By Liz Skinner
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2013
Attracting new blood a challenge

By Bruce Kelly
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 12, 2013
Social Security face-off: Analyzer vs. Explorer

Testing two software tools that calculate benefits and help users' wargame claiming strategies

By Janowski Davis
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 12, 2013
Variable annuities adjust

May updates show the industry is still struggling with historic low rates.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 12, 2013
Jackson thrived in 1Q

By Darla Mercado
Recruiting slows for LPL, Raymond James in otherwise solid quarter
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 10, 2013
Recruiting slows for LPL, Raymond James in otherwise solid quarter

Recruiting slows for LPL, Raymond James in otherwise solid quarter as reps and advisers stay put to keep focus on clients amid stock market rally.

By Bruce Kelly
RIA NEWS MAY 10, 2013
Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services to offer completely cloud-based desktop to RIAs

Offering will include office productivity applications in addition to the firm's WealthCentral platform.

By Janowski Davis
EQUITIES MAY 09, 2013
Pump-and-dump e-mails jump: Regulators

In formal investor alert, SEC, Finra say spamming in "high gear."

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAY 09, 2013
LPL's $7.5M e-mail fine just latest in Finra crackdown

The record fine Finra meted out to LPL for failing to oversee its e-mail system is just the latest in the regulator's crackdown on digital diligence, reports Dan Jamieson.

By DJAMIESON