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INmail: Claiming early nixes switching to spousal benefits
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 14, 2020
INmail: Claiming early nixes switching to spousal benefits

Unfortunately, clients can’t switch to a spousal benefit and allow their own retirement benefit to continue to grow until 70 for a few reasons.

By Mary Beth Franklin
SEC settles with charter-school operator over muni bond offering
FIXED INCOME SEP 14, 2020
SEC settles with charter-school operator over muni bond offering

The agency said Arizona’s Park View School misled investors about its financial condition

By InvestmentNews
Look again: Your annual goals are still within reach
OPINION SEP 14, 2020
Look again: Your annual goals are still within reach

As fall begins, take time to revisit your business plan for the year and figure out what needs to get done and who can do it

By Kristine McManus
Hybrid managing $250 million goes to LPL from Waddell
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 14, 2020
Hybrid managing $250 million goes to LPL from Waddell

JTL Wealth Partners, based in Plano, Texas, has national ambitions

By InvestmentNews
UBS chairman explores merger with Credit Suisse: Report
WIREHOUSES SEP 14, 2020
UBS chairman explores merger with Credit Suisse: Report

Such a deal would create one of Europe's largest banks at a point when the industry is under pressure to consolidate

By Bloomberg
From new normal to new paradigm
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 13, 2020
From new normal to new paradigm

How half a year of quarantine has affected the financial services industry

By InvestmentNews
The digital shift is here — and it’s uncomfortable
FINTECH SEP 11, 2020
The digital shift is here — and it’s uncomfortable

Wholesale tech adoption comes with pitfalls

By Sean Allocca
How advisers can use tech to attract assets
FINTECH SEP 11, 2020
How advisers can use tech to attract assets

With no end in sight to remote work, advisers turn to technology to plot new growth strategies virtually from their living rooms

By Nicole Casperson
Enforcement, arbitration proceedings move online
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 11, 2020
Enforcement, arbitration proceedings move online

Taking testimony, conducting depositions and hearings remotely gains acceptance

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Pandemic's financial, emotional toll prompts early retirements
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 11, 2020
Pandemic's financial, emotional toll prompts early retirements

Stress, employment concerns and market jitters have clients asking whether they are in good shape to stop working

By Emile Hallez
Home office deduction limited to self-employed
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 11, 2020
Home office deduction limited to self-employed

Working from home during COVID-19 might not qualify for a tax break

By Mary Beth Franklin
Keeping an eye on chats
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 11, 2020
Keeping an eye on chats

The pandemic creates cracks in how firms oversee advisers’ communications with clients

By Bruce Kelly
Rockefeller Capital woos Morgan Stanley team managing $500 million
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 11, 2020
Rockefeller Capital woos Morgan Stanley team managing $500 million

The five-person Moore Group will join the firm’s office in Dallas

By InvestmentNews
Brokerages push to extend delay of on-site inspections
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 11, 2020
Brokerages push to extend delay of on-site inspections

Remote oversight is starting to change the concept of supervision

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Closed B-D means more unpaid investor claims
ALTERNATIVES SEP 11, 2020
Closed B-D means more unpaid investor claims

Capital Financial Services is shutting down, leaving clients on the hook

By Bruce Kelly
Former Stifel broker ordered to pay $385,536 for fraud
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 10, 2020
Former Stifel broker ordered to pay $385,536 for fraud

SEC complaint charged Steven Rodemer with stealing funds from elderly client

By InvestmentNews
Texas revokes license of rep for  Woodbridge Wealth sales
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 10, 2020
Texas revokes license of rep for Woodbridge Wealth sales

Kim Diane Butler breached fiduciary duty by receiving $300,000 in commissions on the sales

By InvestmentNews
401(k)s were considering annuities -- then COVID-19 hit
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 10, 2020
401(k)s were considering annuities -- then COVID-19 hit

The pandemic has shifted plan sponsors' priorities, according to a survey from T. Rowe Price

By Emile Hallez
Impact of raising the Social Security taxable wage base
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 10, 2020
Impact of raising the Social Security taxable wage base

Taxing more earnings would improve the finances of the Social Security trust fund; it might also boost benefits

By Mary Beth Franklin
Q&A: WealthConductor CEO Sheryl O'Connor
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 10, 2020
Q&A: WealthConductor CEO Sheryl O'Connor

The fintech's leader talks retirement savings software in the age of COVID-19 and what the industry lacks in gender equality

By Nicole Casperson