The high price of elder care, longer life spans of retirees and persistently low interest rates are wreaking havoc in this corner of the insurance business.
Payroll tax contributions exceed lifetime benefits for most workers. <i>(Hear Mary Beth Franklin <a href="https://home.investmentnews.com/clickshare/eventPurchase.do?CSProduct=investmentnews-event&CSEventId=1204" target="_blank">answer advisers' questions on Social Security</a> today at 4 p.m.)</i>
Families may get to pay for computers again with these popular college savings accounts.
An increasing number of financial advisers are <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20131013/REG/310139963/the-why-and-how-of-blogging" target="_blank">blogging to connect with new and existing clients.</a>
Team partners with Dynasty Financial Partners to found Mosaic Family Wealth
Issue becomes distraction from president's broader plan to expand and simplify tax breaks for education
IBD inks deal with Southwest financial services company Zions Bancorporation, adding 50 reps and advisers.
The president plans to direct the Department of Labor to move ahead with a proposal that would raise investment-advice standards for brokers handling retirement accounts, arguing that conflicted advice is costing Americans billions.
Changes could spark revolt, but 'when Congress needs dollars, they're going to get them,' one adviser says.
Clients are yours to lose, so provide good advice to your clients will stick around
Duo seeks to represent more than 100 trainees, more than $5 million in damages.
Possible presidential hopeful seeks to simplify tax code with two rates for income taxes, one for corporate taxes.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Some funds using cash for protection. Lots of it. Plus: Adviser charged with stealing $1.3M from widows and church friends, up from the ashes arises a new subprime giant, and Wall Street courts millennials.
Once restructuring is completed, the company expects $3 million in annual savings after taking $9 million charge to move Fortigent unit to corporate headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
Examples of how RIAs can make workflows more efficient by making sure their technology communicates
As brokerages feel pressure ramp up, forms coming later than usual.
Advisers and experts say 'the Fed really is hamstrung' by European Central Bankers' planned $50-billion-per-month quantitative easing program, meaning they can't raise or lower interest rates in this environment.
Move launches competition with Goldman Sachs in alternative space
Plus: Learn from the U.S. and invest in Europe, Carly Fiorina chides Hillary Clinton over email excuses, and St. Patrick's Day, American-style
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors' nerves tested by rate hike talk this week. Plus: Most of the world's major oil projects are doing just fine at current price levels, retirement savings in a nutshell, and the chokehold of consumer debt.
