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RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 05, 2014
Learning how to handle stressed clients

Deal with clients at tense moments in their lives requires first-hand experience

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
FINTECH OCT 04, 2014
Financial Twitter explodes in response to Bill Gross' departure from Pimco

Advisers and financial experts take to Twitter to respond to Bill Gross' shocking exit from Pimco and his decision to join Janus Capital Group Inc.

By Andrew Leigh
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS OCT 03, 2014
RCAP back on acquisition trail

By Bruce Kelly
RIA NEWS 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
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
FINTECH OCT 02, 2014
10 social media do's and don'ts for advisers

By Bloomberg
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
WIREHOUSES OCT 01, 2014
Morgan Stanley wins back $3M bonus from insider trader

A Finra arbitration panel ordered Vladimir Eydelman to repay his former firm after he was fired in March amid charges of insider trading.

By Mason Braswell
RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 01, 2014
Dispatch from the retirement front

<i>InvestmentNews</i> contributing editor gives an update on how life has changed since her husband retired.

By Mary Beth Franklin