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Finra wants to up annual gift limit to $175
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 03, 2016
Finra wants to up annual gift limit to $175

Regulator seeking common-sense changes to gift and non-cash comp rules for members.

By Liz Skinner
Top advisers rejecting robo-advice model
RIAS AUG 03, 2016
Top advisers rejecting robo-advice model

Most 'elite' advisers are looking to grow through personalized service to ultra-wealthy and institutional clients.

By Liz Skinner
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 03, 2016
Millennial retirement savers are starting to have big, fat 401(k)s

The generation's reputation for hopping jobs and shunning stocks doesn't match new 401(k) data from Fidelity Investments.

By Bloomberg
RIAS AUG 03, 2016
Assets in robo-advice channel surge, as more RIAs prepare to jump in

Firms embracing automated advice are positioning themselves to capture new client segments. By 2018, nearly one-third of registered investment advisers will have a robo-offering.

By IN Research and Ellie Zhu
RIAS AUG 03, 2016
M&A deals for billion-dollar advisory firms double this year

Consultant says transactions for large planning practices bodes well for any size firm looking to sell.

By Liz Skinner
Trouble looms for small RIAs in next bear market
RIAS AUG 03, 2016
Trouble looms for small RIAs in next bear market

Firms reluctant to sell now may struggle later to find a merger partner to survive.

By Christine Idzelis
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 03, 2016
Muhammad Ali's estate plan: Greatest of all time?

Valuing Mr. Ali's image rights, inheritance tax on property and the will's treatment of his nine children are a few potential estate quirks that could come up.

By Greg Iacurci
Already sizzling market for advisory firms could be stoked by DOL fiduciary rule
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION AUG 03, 2016
Already sizzling market for advisory firms could be stoked by DOL fiduciary rule

Deal flow and complexity on the rise when it comes to sales of adviser businesses.

By Liz Skinner
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 02, 2016
How insurers are losing when it comes to variable annuities

Tight restrictions are placed on investment options in VAs with guaranteed income to reduce their risk. Returns have lagged as a result, frustrating advisers and investors.

By Greg Iacurci
Bonnie Baha, DoubleLine's head of developed credit, dies at 56
EMERGING MARKETS AUG 02, 2016
Bonnie Baha, DoubleLine's head of developed credit, dies at 56

Ms. Baha died Sunday at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, after she was struck by a car while crossing a street.

By Bloomberg
Careful planning can help public employees avoid Social Security reductions
RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 02, 2016
Careful planning can help public employees avoid Social Security reductions

One financial adviser helped his client avoid Social Security reductions by carefully mapping out when to take her benefits and pension.

By Mary Beth Franklin
MetLife VAs flounder as Fidelity halts sales
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 02, 2016
MetLife VAs flounder as Fidelity halts sales

The insurer's variable annuities dipped 39% year-over-year in the second quarter, offering a glimpse into the power of big distributors like Fidelity.

By Greg Iacurci
RIA moving $300M in client assets to Raymond James
BROKER DEALERS AUG 02, 2016
RIA moving $300M in client assets to Raymond James

By Bloomberg
EQUITIES AUG 02, 2016
Reading between the lines of Friday's jobs report

Plus: Brexit bust, SEC nabs doc for insider trading, and double your retirement savings

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES AUG 02, 2016
When it comes to asset management, look for experience

Plus: Breaking the active management habit, the active-passive research conundrum, and recalculating retirement savings calculators

By Jeff Benjamin
Take 5: BlackRock's Russ Koesterich likes Japan, and U.S. technology and healthcare
INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 02, 2016
Take 5: BlackRock's Russ Koesterich likes Japan, and U.S. technology and healthcare

Five candid responses on interest rates, U.S. stocks, foreign stock markets, the race for the White House, and summer moving watching.

By John Waggoner
Meet the economist who's guiding Donald Trump on U.S.-China relations
INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 02, 2016
Meet the economist who's guiding Donald Trump on U.S.-China relations

If you want to read one thinker to understand Mr. Trump on China, it is Peter Navarro of the University of California at Irvine.

By Tyler Cowen
Brokerage groups' higher spending on lobbying doesn't kill DOL fiduciary rule
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION AUG 02, 2016
Brokerage groups' higher spending on lobbying doesn't kill DOL fiduciary rule

Despite heavily outspending investment adviser groups on lobbying lawmakers in the second quarter, industry trade associations didn't succeed in a key goal.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Robo-advisers increasingly represent a useful ally for human advisers
FINTECH AUG 02, 2016
Robo-advisers increasingly represent a useful ally for human advisers

Robos can enlarge the advisory business as a whole, expanding the pools of both providers and users of advice.

By Thomas Hoops
Dawn J. Bennett barred from industry; ordered to pay $4 million in fines, disgorgement
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 02, 2016
Dawn J. Bennett barred from industry; ordered to pay $4 million in fines, disgorgement

SEC ruling includes a civil penalty of $600,000 for Ms. Bennett and $2.9 million for Bennett Group.

By Jeff Benjamin