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NEWS OPINION OCT 01, 2007
Congress is unwilling to give up AMT addiction

By Investment News Team
Answering retirement’s big question
NEWS OPINION SEP 24, 2007
Answering retirement’s big question

I am one of the umpteen million baby boomers slogging my way toward retirement. My generation — oh, you know the drill: “We changed everything,” “We’ve rewritten the rules,” yadda, yadda, barf.

By Evan Cooper
NEWS OPINION SEP 24, 2007
With QDIAs, an overall evaluation is key

By Bloomberg
NEWS OPINION SEP 10, 2007
Is time right for specialized bond products?

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION SEP 10, 2007
The computer-driven advice model

The Pension Protection Act provides a good outline of the major components required Over the past year, I have written extensively on provisions of the 2006 Pension Protection Act. Let’s now focus on components of the PPA’s computer-driven advice model.

By Bloomberg
NEWS OPINION SEP 10, 2007
The power of a business plan

By Joni Youngwirth
NEWS OPINION SEP 04, 2007
Subprime bailout is not the answer

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION AUG 27, 2007
Morningstar rating systems questioned

By Bloomberg
NEWS OPINION AUG 27, 2007
These are the times that try advisers’ goals

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION AUG 27, 2007
Share buybacks worth scrutinizing

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION AUG 20, 2007
Bernanke unlikely to bail out lenders

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION AUG 20, 2007
Fidelity’s succession issues puzzle pros

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION AUG 20, 2007
A possible wallop for master limited partnerships

Washington tax talk these days seems focused on hedge funds, their investors and their managers.

By Bloomberg
NEWS OPINION AUG 13, 2007
Past bubbles offer lessons for advisers

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION AUG 06, 2007
Choose in shareholders’ favor, Mr. Cox

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION JUL 23, 2007
Solving the SEC net-worth ‘puzzlement’

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION JUL 23, 2007
Procedures for selecting and monitoring QDIAs

By Bloomberg
NEWS OPINION JUL 16, 2007
SEC must tread carefully with 12(b)-1s

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION JUL 16, 2007
Reining in inflation fears is key

By ewilliams
NEWS OPINION JUL 09, 2007
It’s clearly time to tackle the AMT

Now that the Senate has disposed of the immigration reform bill, perhaps it and the House of Representatives can turn their attention to a matter at least as serious: reform or repeal of the alternative minimum tax — preferably repeal.

By ewilliams