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INVESTING FIXED INCOME NOV 20, 2015
Bond ETFs can help clients navigate rising rates

Three ways advisers can utilize bond ETFs to ride out whatever waves the Fed's long-deferred action might kick up.

By Matthew Tucker
ADVISOR NEWS IRA ALERT NOV 20, 2015
How to avoid year-end RMD errors

An expert's list of common mistakes advisers make when helping clients take required distributions

By Ed Slott
529 plans adding more conservative investment options
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 20, 2015
529 plans adding more conservative investment options

Hoping to stave off concern from college savers that 529 accounts are too vulnerable to stock market volatility and expected interest rate hikes, some plan managers are switching up investment choices.

By Liz Skinner
RIAS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 20, 2015
Senate Finance Committee OKs changes to college savings plans

Senate committee to approve measure loosening rules for 529 plans.

By Liz Skinner
RIAS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 20, 2015
529 benefits go beyond college savings

Advisers should discuss additional advantages, including estate planning, to help clients make good decisions and build the relationship.

By Liz Skinner
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 19, 2015
S&P's global financial literacy test is out

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> S&amp;P Rating Services has released its global financial services literacy test, which uses four questions to test understanding of interest compounding, inflation, and risk diversification. How would you do?

By Jeff Benjamin
ADVISOR NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 19, 2015
How to build an emergency fund fast

Forty-one percent of households don't have $2,000 in liquid savings, which would cover the median cost of the most expensive financial shock.

By Bloomberg
RIAS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 19, 2015
Can you pass this financial literacy test?

Take the quiz as you go through the story. The answers are in the footnotes.

By Bloomberg
ADVISOR NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 19, 2015
Five year-end moves to make you richer

Now is the time to sit down and focus on your finances.

By Bloomberg
Advice for advisers: Always think about inflation
RIAS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 19, 2015
Advice for advisers: Always think about inflation

It's no surprise that inflation is not top-of-mind but for long-term investing to be successful, long-term returns need to outpace inflation.

By Rusty Vanneman
ADVISOR NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION NOV 19, 2015
Nicholas Schorsch's RCAP gets scorched on multiple fronts

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
How advisers can help lessen the impact of the alternative minimum tax
RIAS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 19, 2015
How advisers can help lessen the impact of the alternative minimum tax

High-earning clients likely to be caught up in the tax code's confusing alternate universe.

By Tim Steffen
UBS scores $2 billion Morgan Stanley team
RIAS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 19, 2015
UBS scores $2 billion Morgan Stanley team

The third billion-dollar-plus team to leave Morgan this summer is the latest in a series of big swaps.

By Mason Braswell
RIAS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 18, 2015
It's the time of year when wirehouses tinker with adviser pay plans

Firms need to think differently as the arms race in upfront money continues unabated.

By DSARCH
$5B Credit Suisse team latest to spurn Wells Fargo by joining Morgan Stanley
RIAS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 18, 2015
$5B Credit Suisse team latest to spurn Wells Fargo by joining Morgan Stanley

Wells finds exclusive recruiting agreement not enough to close the deal with all of the Swiss firm's brokers.

By Laura Sanicola
Graying advisers perform juggling act with baby-boomer, millennial clients
ADVISOR NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 18, 2015
Graying advisers perform juggling act with baby-boomer, millennial clients

Working with retirement clients presents great challenges and opportunities. No two clients are alike and they need personalized solutions.

By Mary Beth Franklin
How to minimize the sting of 2016 Medicare premium rates
ADVISOR NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 18, 2015
How to minimize the sting of 2016 Medicare premium rates

Beneficiaries who can't avoid an increase can still find ways to manage through the hike.

By Katy Votava
UBS hires three Credit Suisse teams with $3.2B in assets
RIAS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 18, 2015
UBS hires three Credit Suisse teams with $3.2B in assets

Houston-based brokers, who specialize in ultra-high-net-worth clients, include vets from Credit Suisse.

By Laura Sanicola
Investors pause but look past Paris attacks, keeping eye on the Fed
INVESTING EQUITIES NOV 18, 2015
Investors pause but look past Paris attacks, keeping eye on the Fed

Much to the surprise of some market watchers, investors &#8212; and thus, financial markets &#8212; Monday looked past the brutal terror attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 people dead and hundreds injured.

By Jeff Benjamin
Health costs derail common retirement savings benchmark
ADVISOR NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 18, 2015
Health costs derail common retirement savings benchmark

Steeply rising health costs call for a more dynamic retirement planning approach than traditional income replacement ratios.

By Greg Iacurci