A "nightmare" is how Shami Kaur, an adviser and certified financial planner with SK Financial Alliance in Cedar Knolls, N.J., describes dealing with cost basis issues and their tax ramifications.
As stocks of the large financial services firms get hammered, more brokers could be tempted to leave.
A number of top independent-contractor broker-dealers have recently reached a variety of records and milestones, from best-ever revenue to increasing revenue from fees rather than commissions.
The subprime-mortgage fiasco has revealed several flaws in the financial system that must be corrected if similar disasters are to be avoided in the future.
The subprime-mortgage meltdown, which has triggered a larger meltdown throughout the credit markets, is the latest example of grand-scale faulty logic and short-term thinking.
The IRS could miss its early season filing peak if Congress waits until December to complete its tax bill.
Almost all adults enrolled in an automatic enrollment 401(k) plan are glad their companies offer the service.
Fund giant's Aa3 rating makes it a low credit risk, but Moody's still worries about transparency.
The firm has upped its subprime-mortgage losses to $27.2 billion, $6.3 billion more than earlier reported.
John Hancock's new program is designed to help 401(k) plan advisers capture and retain rollover assets.
A bill that would protect 21 million taxpayers from paying the AMT “will not become law,” said the congressman.
Brokers at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. of New York are upbeat about the prospects for their company following the departure of chief executive E. Stanley O'Neal last week.
Connecticut is the top-scoring state, and Los Alamos, N.M., is the top-scoring community, for personal-savings and investing behavior, according to A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.
When preparing to depart from a meeting or other encounter with a senior officer, it is a still-practiced naval tradition for junior officers to make the request, "By your leave, sir/madam."
While The PNC Financial Services Group's announcement last week that it is set to acquire Albridge Solutions Inc. was applauded by many in the financial advisory industry, some raised concerns that the planned merger might prove less than a panacea.
Rep. Charles B. Rangel's Tax Reduction and Reform Act of 2007 is misnamed. It should be called the Tax Reallocation and Complication Act of 2007 or perhaps the Accountants and Financial Planners Full Employment Act of 2007.
In about a decade, when a significant number of baby boomers have retired, there will be a new market for financial advice.
Financial advisers who attended the annual Schwab IMPACT conference last week in Las Vegas had a chance to preview an updated version of PortfolioCenter.
A unified managed account platform that gives advisers greater latitude in customizing portfolios for clients is being introduced today by ADVISORport, the UMA platform service of Wilmington, Del.-based PFPC Worldwide Inc.
The mutual fund industry and independent 401(k) service providers squared off last week before the House Ways and Means Committee over whether fees for various 401(k) services should be broken down in disclosures to employers.
