Finding funds likely to beat their benchmarks remains the challenge, and where financial advisers can earn their keep
Firm expects the fiduciary rule to be a catalyst for more advisory business and wants to help its advisers compete.
Total corporate debt as a percentage of U.S. GDP averaged around 15% from the 1990s through 2007. Since that time, however, the size of the corporate bond market has expanded to nearly 36% of GDP.
Responsibility for advice — even that which is incidental to a transaction — cannot be palmed off on an inanimate object.
Data ownership is emerging as a hot topic in the financial advice industry.
Mandatory payouts from savings plans may trigger new taxes.
The comment period for the rule, which was introduced in December, closed on Monday.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Investors assuming they will be able to continue working well beyond normal retirement age doesn't mesh with a frequent reality.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> The Fed says the markets are too obsessed with too much information.
Some clients take years to fire their advisers
If the Labor Department has its way, say goodbye to the variable annuity industry as we know it. </br><b><i>(Related: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/specialreport/20160221/ANNUITY22016" target="_blank">Spotlight on Annuity Strategies special report</a>)</b></i>
Policies and procedures which, when layered upon already onerous rules and regulations, fail to recognize advisers' years of experience and wisdom.
Court filings from the RCAP bankruptcy proceeding state that Cetera Financial Group's adviser headcount has fallen 4.3%.
The company doesn't specify how many of its 9,000 Cetera brokers will qualify, or any other details of the plan.
Markets will `go south' without progress, bond manager says
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> So far this year, the deal-making business has been in the tank. Mergers and IPOs have dropped to a level not seen since the last recession.
Security Benefit, Allianz and New York Life all debuted new fixed annuity products in March that seek to benefit investors in a rising-rate environment.
The insurer allegedly made false representations to investors over the strength of its long-term-care business.
A Health Savings Account is one of the best ways to have retirement cash-flow that is excluded from Medicare's equation.
Clients will appreciate candor, but they're not always prepared to apply what they hear.
