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REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 31, 2013
SEC's chief examiner heads to Finra

Di Florio to set up new unit to ID emerging vulnerabilities for investors and markets.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 30, 2013
Collecting Social Security on your ex - dead or alive!

Benefits depend on if you remarry and when. How not to leave money on the table.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 30, 2013
Collecting Social Security on your ex – dead or alive!

Benefits depend on if you remarry and when.

By Mary Beth Franklin
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS OCT 30, 2013
LPL adds adviser network managing $1.2B

Arizona group of about 40 financial advisory practices joins LPL. The network's founder is looking to add 50 new offices next year.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
ALTERNATIVES OCT 30, 2013
Tradeweb Markets acquires BondDesk Group

Tradeweb deal will combine technology and services from BondDesk and Tradeweb Retail to create a rebranded Tradeweb Direct retail fixed-income division.

By MDURISIN
FINTECH OCT 30, 2013
Do you outsource work to your clients?

What separates most advisory firms from one another is not someone's investment prowess but rather their ability to serve their clients. To do that effectively, we sometimes have to “unscale” our business.

By amurguia
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 30, 2013
Social Security to release 2014 COLA data next week

Next week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will issue the September Consumer Price Index report, the final piece of data that the Social Security Administration needs to plug into its annual cost of living adjustment formula. Social Security benefits — and the taxable wage base for workers — will be slightly higher next year as a result of the COLA.

By Mary Beth Franklin
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 30, 2013
Bond manager in 'big short' misled CDO investors, SEC claims

Wing F. Chau, the bond manager who sued Michael Lewis over his depiction in the 2010 book “The Big Short,” was accused by U.S. regulators of violating his fiduciary duty by accommodating requests from Magnetar Capital LLC in managing financial products linked to subprime mortgages.

By Matt Ackermann
FINTECH OCT 30, 2013
Can RIAs survive the rise of the robo-advisers?

By 2020, the majority of wealth management will probably still involve real, live wealth managers, but the rise of the "robo-advisers" continues. Are you ready?

By jpnicols
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 30, 2013
Government shutdown delays Social Security COLA announcement

Labor Department says CPI report will not be released next week.

By Mary Beth Franklin
WIREHOUSES OCT 30, 2013
Two teams join Wells Fargo from Merrill, UBS

Groups from Salt Lake City, Charlotte, N.C., manage close to $500M combined.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
FINTECH OCT 30, 2013
The convergence of high tech and high touch

Technology has vastly improved transactions in our industry, but JP Nicols says we also need it to improve relationships.

By jpnicols
Has the glass ceiling in financial services really been broken?
OPINION OCT 30, 2013
Has the glass ceiling in financial services really been broken?

Joe Duran says the financial services industry has been guided by calculable and analytical thinking and driven by results. That has led to a bias toward a certain kind of employee.

By Joe Duran
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS OCT 30, 2013
LPL puts layoff, outsourcing plan into action

Cuts don't include client-facing functions.

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 30, 2013
Fewer advisers than expected switch to state oversight

Back in 2009, regulators predicted that 4,000 investment advisers would shift from SEC regulation to state oversight. They were slightly off.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 30, 2013
Mary Beth Franklin: Clients get two-fer when they postpone Social Security

They earn 8%-per-year delayed retirement credits plus annual COLAs

By Mary Beth Franklin
RIA NEWS OCT 30, 2013
COLA boosts estate tax exemption for couples to $10.5M

IRS also sets tax break for single filers at $5.25M

By Bloomberg
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 29, 2013
Ex-Madoff staff look to 'embarrass' SEC at trial

Five ex-employees of Bernard Madoff on trial accused of aiding his $17 billion fraud seek to “embarrass” Securities and Exchange Commission witnesses by asking about bungled Madoff audits, prosecutors say.

By Matt Ackermann
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 29, 2013
Don't let your debts sink your retirement goals

Why some financial professionals now say debt management is key to successful retirement planning

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 29, 2013
Best way an adviser can help: Cut up the credit cards

Plan advisers wanting to step up their service to 401(k) clients, and their workers need look no further than bread-and-butter debt management.

By Darla Mercado