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The tax, estate and retirement planning ramifications of the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage
TAX JUL 10, 2015
The tax, estate and retirement planning ramifications of the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage

Ruling affords advisers an opportunity to review and update clients' financial and tax plans

By Andrew Samalin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 09, 2015
Why you can't give relatives scholarship money and call it charity

The IRS shuts down a scholarship fund that gave money only to family; find out how you can provide income to loved ones tax free.

By Bloomberg
Cost of settling estates rising as states hunt for more revenue
TAX JUL 08, 2015
Cost of settling estates rising as states hunt for more revenue

Connecticut tops the nation in probate fees — latest example of removing caps to fund courts.

By Liz Skinner
What you can learn from the timing of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's divorce
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
What you can learn from the timing of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's divorce

The benefits of filing after a key anniversary may be worth the wait.

By Liz Skinner
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Is Billy Joel the poster child for the Viagra college fund?

Older dads can trigger Social Security benefits for young children.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Changing jobs? New technology aims to help you find the best way to invest your 401(k)

Figuring out your fees shouldn't require reading pages of fine print.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Financial lessons from the timing of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's divorce

Benefits of filing after a key anniversary may be worth the wait.

By Liz Skinner
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Wells Fargo faces major test of broker liability for selling F-Squared

A 68-year-old widower claims wirehouse did insufficient due diligence on the troubled money manager.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
How to clarify the murky regulations governing IRA rollovers
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2015
How to clarify the murky regulations governing IRA rollovers

DOL should craft an exemption for when a fiduciary retirement plan adviser is called on to assist with a rollover decision

By Blaine F. Aikin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2015
Widowed or divorced? Key steps for ensuring your financial well-being

Women often need to get up to speed on finances in a fire-drill fashion and make some very critical decisions following widowhood or divorce.

By Ryan Wibberley
Social Security consolation prizes for divorced spouses
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2015
Social Security consolation prizes for divorced spouses

Ex-spouse can claim independently and is not subject to family maximum limit.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 06, 2015
There's saving — and then there's financial hoarding

Are you a prudent saver, or has over-saving become a pathology?

By Bloomberg
EQUITIES JUL 06, 2015
The Fed has painted itself into a corner, and is only trying to manage expectations

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> An economist says Janet Yellen and the Fed are too chicken to raise rates, but at the same time the FOMC is trying to reassure markets that rate hikes will be slow and deliberate.

By Jeff Benjamin
Social Security claiming strategy short-circuited by excess earnings
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 02, 2015
Social Security claiming strategy short-circuited by excess earnings

Both older nonworking wife and younger employed husband can lose benefits.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Growing consumer demand for health care and Social Security advice
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 02, 2015
Growing consumer demand for health care and Social Security advice

Report shows an opportunity for advisers with this expertise.

By Mary Beth Franklin
IRS shuts lump-sum window for retirees already receiving benefits
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
IRS shuts lump-sum window for retirees already receiving benefits

Defined benefit plan sponsors can no longer replace annuity payments with lump-sum distributions to retirees and their beneficiaries.

By Hazel Bradford
Advisers' big opportunity in the small 401(k) plan space
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
Advisers' big opportunity in the small 401(k) plan space

Small plans desperately need advisers to increase understanding, build an education policy and educate participants.

By Douglas Dubitsky
Same-sex couples inch closer to full Social Security benefits
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
Same-sex couples inch closer to full Social Security benefits

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Wednesday that federal marriage benefits soon will be available to same-sex couples nationwide following the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26.

By Mary Beth Franklin
What same-sex couples should know about Medicare
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
What same-sex couples should know about Medicare

More gay couples than ever will have access to Medicare benefits, but certain rules apply.

By Katy Votava
Insurance industry wants DOL to telegraph changes to fiduciary
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 01, 2015
Insurance industry wants DOL to telegraph changes to fiduciary

Proposal would require brokers working with IRAs and other retirement accounts to act in their clients' best interests, increasing the number of financial advisers who are deemed fiduciaries.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.