Of the 15 largest funds held in 401(k) plans, just one has a positive return for the year as of Thursday, according to data from Brightscope.
Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Brent Hablutzel and Zachary Bond-Stefo will operate as the Hablutzel Group.
Donations of noncash assets are also increasing, with Fidelity reporting that donors gave $331 million in digital assets last year, up from $28 million in 2020.
Young investors raised the total number of individual retirement accounts to a record 12.3 million, the firm said, while a record 38% of people boosted their 401(k) contribution last year.
The RIA aggregator reported that it finished 2021 with a bang, closing 22 deals in the fourth quarter alone. For the year, it hit a new high of 38 RIA transactions.
As private equity pours cash into wealth management, financial advisers should be exposing clients to private equity investments.
This month’s #AdviserTech roundup includes Wealthfront’s $1.4 billion acquisition by UBS, Gemini’s purchase of Bitria, and a couple of deals related to RIA compliance technology.
Stocks fell as President Joe Biden warned of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine, combined with other concerns, like rising inflation.
The firm reported a 9.4% decline in the number of advisers last year, but said it had 2½ times more recruited assets in 2021, at $929 million, compared to $363 million in 2020.
The three advisers, who operate as Outcome Private Wealth in Salt Lake City, are affiliating with LPL through OSJ Stratos Wealth Partners.
Matt Vanden Heuvel and his team operate as Vanden Heuvel Wealth Management of Raymond James in Appleton, Wisconsin.
The bank’s existing broker-dealer will remain in place for corporate and municipal underwriting.
The length of the marriage, whether the individual claiming benefits has remarried, and the age at which they're claiming all affect benefit amounts.
Morningstar Retirement Manager will use Hueler's platform to help individuals include guaranteed income products in their retirement plans.
Now that the broker standard of conduct has been in force for 20 months, the debate over its effectiveness is intensifying.
The New York-based robo-adviser, which landed its largest capital funding round to date in September, for a valuation of $1.3 billion, could now have a significant bull's-eye on its back for potential buyers.
In her new role as head of ESG at American Century Investments, Sarah Bratton Hughes says she's ready to push the firm into the megatrends that will dominate the next 20 years.
The SEC and the Justice Department are looking at how bankers, including those at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, work with hedge funds to carry out stock sales big enough to send prices tumbling.
Blend Wealth's co-founders are using their own experiences to help other blended families get on the same page financially.
DFA and Midland National are working with RetireOne on its contingent deferred annuity, which launched last October.
