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Net contributions to target-date funds topped $170 billion in 2021
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 31, 2022
Net contributions to target-date funds topped $170 billion in 2021

Roughly 86% of last year's net inflows went into collective investment trusts, which now hold 45% of total TDF assets.

By InvestmentNews
Women-owned $220 million hybrid shifts to Commonwealth from Triad
NEWS ADVISOR MOVES MAR 30, 2022
Women-owned $220 million hybrid shifts to Commonwealth from Triad

Four-adviser Stonebridge Financial Planning Group, which is based in Orlando, Florida, specializes in working with women in transition.

By InvestmentNews
SEC emphasizes weighing costs of account recommendations
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAR 30, 2022
SEC emphasizes weighing costs of account recommendations

Advisers don't always have to recommend the least expensive option, but they'd better explain why they opted for the costlier one.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Will 2022 see an RIA white whale — a mega mega-deal?
NEWS RIAS MAR 30, 2022
Will 2022 see an RIA white whale — a mega mega-deal?

When will one of the 40 or so large strategic buyers of registered investment advisory firms emerge from the depths to swim with another?

By Bruce Kelly
Cresset hires advisers managing $800 million
NEWS ADVISOR MOVES MAR 30, 2022
Cresset hires advisers managing $800 million

Chris Georgopoulos joins in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Thomas McKeown joins in Chicago.

By InvestmentNews
Daughter of convicted adviser pleads guilty to fraud
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 30, 2022
Daughter of convicted adviser pleads guilty to fraud

Vania May Bell is former chief compliance officer of Executive Compensation Planners Inc., where her father was president.

By Bruce Kelly
Financial help a top concern for aspiring advisers
NEWS FINTECH MAR 30, 2022
Financial help a top concern for aspiring advisers

A new survey of some 4,300 financial advisers and students found that a lack of financial assistance was the No. 1 barrier to entry into the industry, with nearly half of the respondents citing finances as a top concern.

By Sean Allocca
Riskalyze doubles down on fixed-income analysis
NEWS ALTERNATIVES MAR 30, 2022
Riskalyze doubles down on fixed-income analysis

The risk-analysis platform plans to more than double its bond coverage by adding 800,000 more individual bonds this year.

By Jeff Benjamin
Payout grids for independent broker-dealers
NEWS BROKER DEALERS MAR 30, 2022
Payout grids for independent broker-dealers

See the payout grids for 49 IBDs, based on data the firms provided to InvestmentNews Research.

By InvestmentNews
House approves SECURE 2.0 with strong bipartisan vote
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 29, 2022
House approves SECURE 2.0 with strong bipartisan vote

Supporters of the legislation, which would raise the RMD age to 75, are pushing for Senate action to get a final bill to President Biden later this year.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Senate HELP Chair Murray promises bipartisan retirement savings bill soon
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 29, 2022
Senate HELP Chair Murray promises bipartisan retirement savings bill soon

The measure would be another piece of Senate legislation that complements the SECURE 2.0 bill poised for House approval.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Goldman Sachs to acquire retirement plan robo NextCapital
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 29, 2022
Goldman Sachs to acquire retirement plan robo NextCapital

The company's asset management unit already supervises a total of $350 billion in assets in defined-benefit and defined-contribution accounts and will utilize the acquisition to provide new digital tools to customers. 

By Sean Allocca
Advisers place little faith in Biden's 'billionaire tax'
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 29, 2022
Advisers place little faith in Biden's 'billionaire tax'

The proposal, which goes after households worth at least $100 million, enters unprecedented territory by trying to tax unrealized gains.

By Jeff Benjamin
Raymond James adds Merrill pair with $353 million in assets
NEWS BROKER DEALERS MAR 29, 2022
Raymond James adds Merrill pair with $353 million in assets

The father-and-son team of David and Mitch Vallie is based in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

By InvestmentNews
Training can make financial advisers indispensable to UHNW families
NEWS OPINION MAR 29, 2022
Training can make financial advisers indispensable to UHNW families

Advisers need to learn to help ultra-high-net-worth families achieve and maintain a sense of shared purpose and stewardship around legacies.

By Richard Orlando and Gordon Ross
Creative Planning acquires $1.8 billion RIA
NEWS RIAS MAR 29, 2022
Creative Planning acquires $1.8 billion RIA

Burlingame, California-based Emery Howard serves Silicon Valley

By InvestmentNews
AIG files for IPO of life and retirement business
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 29, 2022
AIG files for IPO of life and retirement business

The insurer's life and retirement arm, which has $411 billion in client assets, will be renamed Corebridge Financial once it goes public.

By Bloomberg
Federal Reserve pivots toward jumbo hikes after being slammed as too slow
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 29, 2022
Federal Reserve pivots toward jumbo hikes after being slammed as too slow

The Fed quickly became more concerned that the surge in food and energy prices caused by the war in Ukraine would entrench inflation — and expectations — at unacceptably high levels.

By Bloomberg
Exclusive: Morgan Stanley lays out plans to enter the ETF market
NEWS ETFS MAR 29, 2022
Exclusive: Morgan Stanley lays out plans to enter the ETF market

The $1.5 trillion investment manager is designing a full-scale ETF platform, and plans to launch its first ETFs this year.

By Jeff Benjamin
Team with $240 million in assets joins Arkadios from Securities America
NEWS ADVISOR MOVES MAR 28, 2022
Team with $240 million in assets joins Arkadios from Securities America

WhiteStone Wealth Management Management is based in San Antonio, Texas.

By InvestmentNews