With more than half of its revenue coming from fees, Edward Jones plans to start selling proprietary investment products in a sharp break from the past.
Windfall elimination provision can cut size of a worker's retirement benefit.
Big plans for eyewear that now offers hands-free display of quotes from major stock indexes at the close.
Originally designed to allow a company's highest-paid executives to defer their annual cash bonus, nonqualified deferred-compensation plans have evolved into flexible, multiuse executive retirement plans — with investment options similar to their qualified-retirement-plan counterparts.
Restructuring, if it happens, won't likely affect Merrill's advisers.
Shared housing could improve the retirement prospects of single baby boomers. Mary Beth Franklin has some real-life stories.
New report finds issues with firms' data aggregation processes.
BofA Merrill Lynch continues to see its adviser ranks shrink, but average productivity is growing, topping $1 million for the first time thanks to strong markets.
Fairholme Fund boss now has 7% of fund's assets in Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac; joins suit, too
Number of Vanguard plan participants investing in professionally managed offerings up 50% since 2007; diversification more diversified
Sponsors increasingly asking advisers about ways to boost participants' results
Product with built-in income rider set to debut Oct. 14.
New hires to serve as regional directors; firm plans big advertising push.
Predictable client base can increase the price tag of your practice.
Investors may find themselves in unfamiliar territory related to the fiscal collapse
Municipal workers' benefits hanging in the balance amid bankruptcy filing.
Catalyst Insider Buying Fund generating outsized returns; up 22% for the year
What Jeff's reading today: Jail time for adviser who ripped off her NFL linebacker client, plus: the taper question, 98% chance of a market crash next year, the yen-dollar trade, New Yorkers dodge taxes, and (surprise!) Congress wastes your money.
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