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BROKER DEALERS OCT 03, 2014
RCAP back on acquisition trail

By Bruce Kelly
RIAS OCT 03, 2014
Raymond James recruits $300M Morgan Stanley team

Advisers Craig Houck and Richard Schooley focus on retirement plan design.

By Bianca Flowers
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
How to make the 401(k) cash pile last for life

The hard questions: Spend now to enjoy healthy years and risk running out of money? Or scrimp today for a tomorrow that may never come -- or come only when you're too infirm to savor it?

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
A 401(k) conundrum: Can you make cash pile last for life?

Little thought – or government help — is given to the question of how to make withdrawals from a retirement plan

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
Supreme Court decision on 401(k) fee case could have domino effect

Where the court stands on a six-year statute of limitations could shape how fiduciaries serve retirement plans and participants.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 03, 2014
Supreme Court decision on 401(k) fee case could have domino effect

Where the court stands on a six-year statute of limitations could shape how fiduciaries serve retirement plans and participants.

By Darla Mercado
ETFS OCT 03, 2014
Advisers wary of keeping client assets at Pimco

While some financial professionals say Bill Gross' exit is the final straw, and others exited long ago — some are staying put.

By Liz Skinner
WIREHOUSES OCT 03, 2014
Ex-UBS broker accused of defrauding elderly in Ponzi scheme

SEC has charged Donna Tucker with stealing $730,000 from older clients, including a blind couple.

By Mason Braswell
ALTERNATIVES OCT 03, 2014
Finra asks for delay in implementing rule affecting nontraded REIT customer statements

Changes would not take effect until 18 months after SEC signs off, three times longer than originally proposed.

By Bruce Kelly
FINTECH OCT 03, 2014
Why Ron Carson is afraid of robo-advisers

In a Take Five interview, the adviser-coach says traditional advisers risk irrelevance if they can't respond to firms like Wealthfront and Betterment.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 02, 2014
Tom Clancy's final plot twist is a big estate fight over taxes

Lesson learned: Settle the questions beforehand by funding trusts

By by Andy and Danielle Mayoras
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 02, 2014
Why financial advisers still hate reverse mortgages

Tapping your equity in retirement can increase your income, but trap you when you need to move.

By Bloomberg
INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 02, 2014
The part-time job market

By Elizabeth MacBride
EQUITIES OCT 02, 2014
Gross exposes $42 trillion bond market's key flaw in exit

Lack of liquidity in less-traded corners of the market is the big issue

By Bloomberg
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 02, 2014
No big price increases for Lincoln National annuities

CEO Dennis Glass lays out insurer's strategy for when interest rates rise.

By Darla Mercado
RIAS OCT 02, 2014
Custodians ranked by number of RIA custody clients

By mlanche
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 02, 2014
Medicare: The next frontier

As health care costs in retirement rise, many advisers and clients still haven't accounted for a major part of those expenses: Medicare.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 01, 2014
Which earnings don't reduce Social Security benefits?

Find out what you can do in retirement that won't count toward the earnings test.

By Mary Beth Franklin
OPINION OCT 01, 2014
Apple Pay may feel painless. At first.

Studies show that people spend as much as 100% more when they don't use 'real' money.

By Cass R. Sunstein
EQUITIES OCT 01, 2014
Pimco Total Return takes big hit

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Gross leaves and the cash follows. Plus: A new robo-adviser enters the market; Schorsch at it again, with a twist; corporations are healthy, healthy, healthy; oil prices are falling; and Elon Musk's next move.

By Jeff Benjamin