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RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 01, 2017
Today's retirees are better off than previously thought

Millions of older Americans benefit from traditional retirement plans, new research finds.

By Bloomberg
FINTECH AUG 01, 2017
LPL preparing two tech additions for advisers and their clients

The firm is working on a robo-platform and a new mobile app for clients

By Bruce Kelly
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 01, 2017
The upside-down 401(k) world is about to change

Parts of the 401(k) plan that are currently customized will become mass-produced, and vice versa.

By Fred Barstein
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 31, 2017
Bannon proposal to raise top tax rate dismissed by White House official

Income-tax increase on wealthy to pay for middle-class cuts won't encourage growth, says Marc Short, Trump's director of legislative affairs.

By Bloomberg
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 31, 2017
LPL Financial benefits from flight of Wells Fargo advisers

Independent broker-dealer signs up 15 teams from the bank's wirehouse in the second quarter.

By Bruce Kelly
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 31, 2017
Number of experienced defined-contribution plan advisers to grow with DOL fiduciary rule

The most specialized retirement plan advisers control nearly 70% of adviser-held DC assets.

By Greg Iacurci
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 31, 2017
DOL fiduciary rule already proving to be harmful and onerous

The Financial Services Institute has urged the DOL to delay full implementation of the rule until April 10, 2019. But a delay alone will not be enough, according to the trade group.

By Dale Brown
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 31, 2017
Stifel CEO raises doubts about future of DOL rule

Ron Kruszewski doesn't think the DOL rule will be implemented on schedule — and may never take effect.

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Government to wind down Obama-era retirement savings program

The myRA program was available to workers with no employer-sponsored retirement plan, such as a 401(k), and with little money to invest.

By John Waggoner
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Americans' savings rate sinks to lowest level in 9 years

Chances are, you aren't saving the way you used to.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Treasury Department to wind down Obama-era myRA retirement program

The program, which was aimed at workers with no employer-sponsored retirement plan and little money to invest, suffered from low demand and high costs

By John Waggoner
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 28, 2017
Massachusetts regulator blasts SEC's Piwowar over fiduciary rule

William Galvin reiterates support for fiduciary standard in letter to DOL.

By InvestmentNews
Most women flunk retirement income literacy quiz
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Most women flunk retirement income literacy quiz

Only 18% of retirement age women can pass a basic quiz about how to make a nest egg last in retirement.

By Mary Beth Franklin
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 28, 2017
Former Aegis Capital broker barred for skipping hearing

Kenneth L. Jones had been terminated for not disclosing outside business.

By InvestmentNews
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
U.S. plummets on global ranking for retirement security

Norway, Switzerland and Iceland hold on to the top three slots.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 28, 2017
Advisers: What about your retirement?

Formulating a holistic plan is a good approach for clients, and you as well.

By Joni Youngwirth
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 27, 2017
On Social Security, financial advisers tell clients to not count on much

Beyond debating its solvency, advisers embrace the reality of a broken system.

By Jeff Benjamin
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 27, 2017
Bannon plan to raise taxes on highest earners may find GOP support

Lawmaker says higher top income-tax rate may be acceptable, if coupled with other changes benefiting corporations.

By Bloomberg
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 27, 2017
More advisers disapprove of Trump job performance at six-month mark

More than half of respondents to <i>InvestmentNews</i> poll say their confidence has dropped since start of term. Supporters give him partial credit for market uptick.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 27, 2017
Most women flunk retirement income literacy quiz

Many female clients want advisers to educate them about investing and longevity risks.

By Mary Beth Franklin