<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: As robo-advisers flood the zone, investors (and human financial advisers) should continue to proceed with caution.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Instead of needing 80% of your pre-retirement income, you can probably make it with 60%.
Five years after Dodd-Frank, agency puts issue on official calendar, signaling the rule is a priority.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: According to the COP21 conference in Paris this week, global warming is on a pace to eventually hurt the economy.
Finra says it is more interested in supervisory lapses, suitability issues with complex products and selling away than big-money fraud.
Too complex and cumbersome, provision would exclude investments such as alternatives from list of options.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> SEC chairwoman Mary Jo White says the agency is taking a hard look at ETFs' role on Aug. 24, when stocks dropped like a rock, and the agency's trading rules are part of the scrutiny.
Percentage of women in Congress similar to their proportion in the advice sector, with plenty of room to grow
Senior$afe Act seems like a win-win for financial advisers and their elder clients.
Perez defends White House study, while SIFMA and ICI attack it.
Organization wants to strengthen its lobbying punch to counter the likes of NAIFA and others that oppose a clients' best interests rule.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The financial markets are likely to be swept up in the immediate unrest following Friday's terror attacks in Paris.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Nation's largest public pension fund trims its real estate holdings with a $3B sale.
Fix the exam frequency issue before investors are harmed, the reputation of the RIA industry is tarnished and Washington imposes a solution not of our choosing
LPL CEO Casady says that as written, rule would bar sales of certain alternative investments in brokerage retirement accounts. <i>(See also: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20150430/BLOG07/150439998/democratic-senators-split-from-white-house-on-dol-fiduciary-rule" target="_blank">Democratic senators split from White House on DOL fiduciary rule</a>)</i>
While bipartisan group frets over 'unintended negative consequences,' Labor Department says bill would establish best-interest standard 'in name only.'
Lawmakers released what they called “legislative principles” for retirement advisers, including acting in clients' best interests.
The House Financial Services Committee overwhelmingly approved legislation that would ease restrictions on the kind of investors who can purchase unregistered securities.
