The American Securities Association says the Labor Department voluntarily dropped its appeal of a Florida court's decision striking down DOL guidance making rollover advice fiduciary.
According to InvestmentNews data, the top two destinations for advisors leaving Securian this year are LPL Financial and StanCorp Equities.
The five-member New Jersey-based team will use LPL's institution services platform and will work with Affinity Federal Credit Union.
In an era of increasingly complex regulatory oversight and possibly the most aggressive SEC ever, breakaway RIAs are realizing that compliance is not something to be ignored.
While the RIA channel is on the ascendant and the advisor population is not growing fast enough to meet demand, don’t count out independent broker-dealers.
Like baseball star Aaron Judge, annuity sales set a record in ‘22. Here’s why the retirement income instrument could pop out of the dugout for a curtain call in ‘23.
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Shortfalls in individuals' nest eggs will mean higher public assistance costs, decreased tax revenue, lower household spending and a decline in standards of living, a study finds.
Melville, New York-based SW Financial received $2 million in undisclosed compensation for selling the private placements, according to Finra.
Plaintiffs claim the three pension funds breached their fiduciary duty when they sold roughly $4 billion in fossil-fuel investments in 2021.
The Inflation Reduction Act gives clients many reasons to make their homes more energy-efficient or get an electric vehicle, now or later.
Research shows most new clients come directly from referrals from existing clients, yet most advisors are reluctant to ask for referrals.
Vestwell will provide a new record-keeping solution and help power Everyday 401(k), Chase’s workplace savings program for small businesses.
The sale of the 20% equity stake values the US wealth unit, CI Private Wealth, at $5.3 billion, and it postpones the planned IPO.
The economist and writer, who's chief investment officer at robo-advisor Wealthfront, advocates using direct indexing to harvest tax losses.
David DeVoe challenges the industry to refocus on organic growth, but not just for growth's sake.
Annuity Research & Consulting will provide fee-only vetting of lifetime income options for company retirement plans.
The transaction allows CI to pay down some of the debt it accumulated as it acquired wealth management firms across the US.
Fifty years after the passage of ERISA, the insurance industry has come to the rescue with solutions that allow retirement plans to address the problem of decumulation.
Tuition reimbursement accounts are designed to help workers pay for degrees and ongoing training.
