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Targeting tax cheats
President Joe Biden's plan is designed to boost IRS funding to lower the tax gap and raise $700 billion over 10 years.
Heeding tax winds, advisers chart new financial tactics for clients
Tax planning has become an urgent topic following President Joe Biden's proposal aimed at high earners and wealthy investors.
Bitcoin bears: Financial advisers still cautious of crypto
Hype from retail and institutional investors on digital assets isn’t enough to sway skeptical advisers who are weighing the risk and reward of crypto before adding the asset class to clients' portfolios.
In face of pandemic, IBDs proved resilient in 2020
Last year, the 25 largest independent broker-dealers reported $26.6 billion in revenue, an increase of 4.3% from 2019. Although financial results were far from spectacular, growth at leading IBDs last year was resilient in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the havoc it caused for the broader stock market.
What sparked today’s love of ESG?
Even for the earliest proponents of sustainability, the sudden spike in ESG investing popularity is surprising, but satisfying.
Fintech apps that strive for good
Fintech platforms are helping to ensure customers not only understand what diversification means, but also how it can help them build a more balanced portfolio.
GameStop’s saga: What the stock surge proves about financial (il)literacy
The GameStop trading frenzy taught inexperienced investors the wrong lessons about investing, drawing new attention to the financial literacy threat America has faced for years.
Hester Peirce pushes for personal liberty as an SEC voice of dissent
During her first three years on the commission, Peirce was part of a Republican majority. With the likely confirmation of Gary Gensler as SEC chair, Democrats will have the edge.
Out of work and looking for income: Can annuities help?
Annuities are one of the leading recommendations for near retirees who are concerned about running out of money. But they are also poorly understood by many consumers, and that puts people at risk for being sold inappropriate products in amounts that represent an outsize proportion of their savings.
How Covid-19 changed retirement planning
When to claim Social Security is the top question for new retirees.
Beyond adoption: Wealthtech finally eyes innovation
Wealthtech has finally graduated from forcing adoption to focusing on innovative ways to bring financial advice into users' pockets.
When retirement money is tied up in a business, closing hurts
Small-business owners across industries who are nearing retirement have said they are worried about their financial security.
SPACs are the investment darling of the pandemic
Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been all the rage for the past 12 months, but will the fever outlast the pandemic?
RIAs are warming up to remote work
Financial advisers are embracing a more virtual form of communicating with clients and colleagues to the point where most don’t expect to ever go back to sitting behind a desk in a traditional office.
Remote compliance mostly meets the challenge of working from home
But a stock market reaching record highs may be masking shortfalls, and a recent survey says firms aren't supervising conferencing platforms.
The RIA roll-up market has seen a decade of explosion
The marketplace for RIA M&A networks is currently overrun with players — from brand-new entrants from outside the U.S. to well-established RIAs. Over the past 15 years, the RIA aggregator market has taken off.
The unquenchable thirst for wealth management
With M&A in the RIA space setting records, the focus turns naturally to the seemingly irreversible influence of private equity money.
Advisers, clients not on same page about guaranteed income: Survey
Last year’s market plunge and quick recovery appear to have changed the way people feel about the value of guaranteed lifetime income, Cannex found. In February 2020, 71% of people said they found guaranteed lifetime income highly valuable, but that figure had dropped to 63% by August.
Viral or vicious? Financial advice blows up on TikTok
In the past, advisers viewed social media as a marketing tool that targeted only millennial and Gen Z clients. That narrative has changed.
Elevating wealth for women
Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck goes beyond investment management and traditional financial planning to help female clients be strategic about career paths, salary negotiations and other topics that provide real value.
