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NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 26, 2013
Financial lives in flux as DOMA decision awaited

By Liz Skinner
NEWS FIXED INCOME JUN 26, 2013
Bernanke talks — but advisers way ahead of the yield curve

Moved clients out of long bonds months ago; 'running in front of a steamroller'

By Jeff Benjamin
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 26, 2013
Next benefit fortress to fall: Employee health insurance

By Mary Beth Franklin
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 26, 2013
Retiree health care nut drops by $20k — but hold the parade

Economy, Medicare factor into new Fidelity forecast but decline is only temporary

By Darla Mercado
NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUN 26, 2013
Finra charges brokerage chief Belesis and firm with fraud

Finra has charged brokerage chief Tommy Belesis and his firm, John Thomas Financial, with fraud in a front-running scheme to make $1 million on a penny stock. Bruce Kelly has the story.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS RIAS JUN 25, 2013
The Takeaway: Did you buy the dip? Guess who did?

By Joshua Brown
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 25, 2013
So are the market jitters over?

By Jeff Benjamin
NEWS EQUITIES JUN 25, 2013
Stock rally in the middle innings: Fisher

Billionaire investor calls end to Fed's QE program bullish.

By Gregory Crawford
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 25, 2013
Plan sponsors to advisers: More, more, more

Survey shows 401(k) clients at smaller businesses expecting ramped-up service; fees the only thing they want less of

By Darla Mercado
NEWS RIAS JUN 25, 2013
Satisfaction with advisers climbing; RBC, Fidelity lead the pack, J.D. Power says

Investors' approval of their advisers continues to increase after dropping sharply in the aftermath of the credit crisis. Liz Skinner tells why.

By Liz Skinner
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 25, 2013
Finra backpedals, pulls plan mandating web links to BrokerCheck

Finra has killed its proposal requiring reps and firms to provide a URL to BrokerCheck on their sites and social- media pages.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Chart of the day: Which NFL team generated the best ROI this season?
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 25, 2013
Chart of the day: Which NFL team generated the best ROI this season?

The Ravens proved they were champs of the gridiron in the Super Bowl; for 'investors' they were so-so performers

By Paul Menchaca
NEWS EQUITIES JUN 24, 2013
The Takeaway: This adviser is done with Facebook — and his post about it has gone viral

By Joshua Brown
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 24, 2013
You can't handle the truth: Central banks' messages spooking investors

Heightened transparency was supposed to help central banks calm investors' nerves and settle markets. It's not working out that way lately.

By John Goff
NEWS EQUITIES JUN 24, 2013
Up, up and away: Jobs report clears upside for stocks

"Market friendly" jobs report to keep Fed from easing up on easing, clearing upside for stocks. For now.

By DJAMIESON
NEWS RIAS JUN 24, 2013
Schwab plumps up roster with new dividend offering

Launches product under recently acquired ThomasPartners' banner

By DJAMIESON
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 24, 2013
Strategist positive on gold, stocks

By Jeff Benjamin
NEWS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUN 23, 2013
Five years after crisis, advisers can sleep at night, but clients still nervous

Since the dark days five years ago when Lehman failed and Merrill sold its brokers to Bank of America, advisers and financial markets have recovered but clients remain scarred and nervous, worried about a repeat. What are the chances?

By Liz Skinner
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 23, 2013
VA guidance is responsibility of reps: Compliance experts

By Darla Mercado
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 23, 2013
A wild ride

Celebrating a decade-and-a-half of InvestmentNews, including a look back at the people, events and moments that forever changed the business of financial advice.

By John Goff