A report from the Alliance for Lifetime Income calls for new retirement income model that includes annuities.
In the second of a three-part series, the authors examine the importance of asset allocation in the changing preferences of next-gen clients.
The first of a three-part series breaks down important preferences of next-gen clients as wealth managers manage the transfer of wealth.
Say goodbye to PDF documents and hello to narrated and personalized videos for client accounts.
That will likely have a lasting effect on retirement savings for those workers, nearly 70% of whom said they will not pay back any portion of the distributions they took under the CARES Act, according to data from Principal Financial Services.
With $600 billion in assets under advisement, Captrust has appointed a head of wealth management to lead the growing $24 billion under management business.
The Securities and Exchange Commission summoned the banks for hasty meetings on what triggered the forced sale of more than $20 billion of stocks linked to Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management.
He was suspended by the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards in 2013, and was barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Pennsylvania Department of Banking in 2015.
The CFP Board has spent $10 million each year on the campaign since its launch in 2011. The campaign is funded by an additional $12 per month that is added to the annual CFP certification fee.
The company's new Retirement Select service is competing against state-sponsored auto IRAs, and it comes as other firms are exploring the pooled-employer plan market.
All the old roadblocks to advisory firms making meaningful use of social media are gone.
The error occurred in October, when the Vanguard 529 Plan switched from age-based portfolios to target-enrollment portfolios, the company said in an email.
State and federal GOP officials continue to push back against what they call regulatory overreach. The SEC says it is trying to meet investor demand for ESG information.
Plaintiffs sued BlackRock Institutional Trust Co. in 2017, alleging that the firm engaged in self-dealing and breached its fiduciary duty by including numerous in-house products on the plan menu.
As part of the settlement, Edward Jones will create a new financial adviser council to address diversity issues and senior management will be kept informed of those initiatives.
The program would be modeled after the government’s Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees.
Clients come in with a problem that is actually a bundle of issues, only partly financial, that they haven’t been able to sort through to make progress toward resolution.
The move follows Schwab’s decision to shut down its corporate political action committee following the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol.
The TDA Retirement Plan will be closed to new clients at the start of next month, with business instead going to Schwab’s Retirement Network for Advisors, a company spokesperson said in a statement.
The state's defined-contribution retirement plans have $5 billion in assets for 95,000 public employees.
