News out of Detroit and Illinois means retirees should count on lower income stream
Investors are donating more, but also seeking to make an impact with their gifts
To benefit an animal-rescue charity effort that LPL is undertaking, LPL's usually clean-cut CEO Mark Casady is growing a beard. This week, he posted a Photoshopped “Duck Dynasty”-style beard on Twitter.
For advisers working with clients in Detroit and Ilinois, preparing for a sharp cut in pension benefits — and a smaller income stream — is a centerpiece of retirement planning.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: T. Rowe Price warns of correction, Deutsche Bank bans chat rooms, the first-ever hedge fund ad debuts, big banks sweating over the looming Volcker rule, and EU Commission levies heavy fine for rate rigging.
The largest seller of long-term-care coverage is counting on periodic rate increases of 2% to 4% to maintain profit targets.
The world's biggest wealth manager, is targeting millionaire clients in oil-rich Nigeria and Angola as Swiss rival Credit Suisse Group AG withdraws from some African markets.
Richard G. Ketchum, chairman and chief executive of Finra, called on brokers to make the fiduciary standard their guideline and not to get bogged down in the legal liabilities associated with it.
Step by step, former wirehouse advisers can build a new brand and enjoy new freedom.
Advisory firms — particularly large and growing ones — are considering the addition of a chief risk officer to stay on the level.
Rules differ for those currently married, widows/widowers and the divorced
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin includes: Facing the reality of capital gains, Hilton IPO sheds light on hotel stocks, hedge funds go long-only, and the Brits outshop Americans.
A paradox for the ages as weak economy pushes stock prices higher.
Waiting till after Jan. 1 to cash out means a whole year to harvest losses, experts say
Clients may think advisers are buying them a load of coal when they see their quarterly statements because advisers are poised to buy some (gulp) bonds, interest-rate risk included, before the end of the year despite stocks' strong outlook.
Nuveen's chief equity strategist Bob Doll says economic underpinnings, including revenue growth, are strengthening as stock prices continue to climb. And valuations? Not insane.
Pimco's Bill Gross raised the percentage of Treasuries and other U.S. government-related debt in his flagship fund in October after the Federal Reserve unexpectedly maintained its bond purchases.
You have probably read a lot about “big data” and a whole industry that helps businesses get a handle on measuring “metrics that matter.” One of the keys to success for an RIA is knowing both what to measure and how to measure it.
Thanks to the stock market rally, among other things, the $287 billion Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has surpassed the $247 billion Bill Gross' Pimco Total Return Fund as the largest mutual fund. At least for now.
Finished with its acquisition of Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc., Raymond James Financial Inc. plans to refocus on recruiting, which was depressed across the industry in the first half of 2013, chief executive Paul Reilly said Thursday, a day after the firm reported record profits.
