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 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.
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.
The program would be modeled after the government’s Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees.
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.
In an industry dominated by men, women said they faced challenges early in their careers to prove themselves.
RPAs need to create or use high-quality content. Ideally, RPAs get their content published or speak at industry events. Though social media is important, we have all learned that it is not necessarily reputable.
A Fidelity study underscores the importance of financial planning, but reveals that the term means different things to people of different ages.
Eight of nine big defined-contribution record keepers either already offer emergency savings programs or are planning to, according to a Commonwealth report. Two — Prudential and Voya — provide those services as an in-plan option.
The response puts pressure on Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg to sweeten the offer as he seeks to beef up Chubb with Hartford's small-business coverage, fund manager and employee benefits unit.
The Washington firm manages retirement plans for public workers.
There’s rising confidence at the White House that evidence of widening inequality will translate into broad popular support for a tax-the-wealthy strategy.
The National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts' program qualifies for CFP and CPA continuing education credits.
Wilmington Trust, BNY Mellon and PGIM Fixed Income all play a role in the target-date CITs the union is rolling out for its members' defined-contribution plans.
One of the silver linings of the pandemic is the Social Security Administration has made it easier to conduct business online and over the phone.
As the country begins to reopen for business, advisers may want to take stock of a year that altered the retirement plans of millions of Americans.
Hartford has long been considered a potential takeover candidate for the biggest insurers in the U.S., and Chubb could reap considerable cost savings from a deal.
Defined-contribution plans like 401(k)s have all but replaced pension plans, although many plan providers and insurance companies are aiming to make the former more like the latter. The latest step has been to include guaranteed income options in 401(k)s, a development that will soon be tested in the market.
