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RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 28, 2014
How one woman collects three types of Social Security benefits

Divorced and widowed, this client can rack up significant guaranteed retirement income by using this savvy strategy.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 28, 2014
Rollovers of 401(k)s into pension plans gets government agency backing

With move, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. clears the way for annuitization of the funds.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 26, 2014
Financial planning issues wrapped into government spending bill?

As Congress prepares to vote on funding, the Labor Department's fiduciary duty rule and some pension benefits could be at risk in last-minute deal making.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 26, 2014
Government workers get first crack at phased retirement

Will federal program set an example for the private sector?

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 26, 2014
Early detection of Alzheimer's would allow for better financial planning

Soon, a blood test may let patients know they have Alzheimer's 10 years earlier than it can be diagnosed today. Advisers say that is a lot of extra years to allow clients to save and make important legal and health care decisions.

By Liz Skinner
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 25, 2014
Madoff scam recovery hits $10 billion, almost 60% of lost money

The cost of liquidating the con man's defunct investment advisory firm has topped $1 billion but his former clients aren't footing the bill.

By Bloomberg
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 25, 2014
IRS losing the battle over mega-IRAs as company founders fill retirement accounts with nonpublic stock

Outgoing Senate Finance Committee chair urges IRS, Treasury to step up.

By Bloomberg
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES NOV 25, 2014
Ring out the old year with a bowlful of tax strategies

Tips to help make 2014 less painful than 2013 for wealthy clients

By Darla Mercado
FINTECH NOV 24, 2014
New, easy and free technology to figure out capital gains distributions

Online database makes avoiding complicated tax savings a thing of the past.

By Sheryl Rowling
MUTUAL FUNDS NOV 24, 2014
Higher taxes loom for fund investors

Financial advisers doing end-of-the-year planning for clients must begin the work of reconciling the gains of the U.S. economy and financial markets with mutual fund and ETF capital gains that could increase those clients' tax liabilities.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 24, 2014
Mixing tax time and the holidays

Financial advisers should be urging their higher-income clients to come in for tax planning sessions.

By Andrew Leigh
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 24, 2014
Rethinking the traditional retirement income glide path

New software takes headaches out of the bucket strategy

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 23, 2014
Morningstar is ready to move beyond the style box

Powerful research firm asks advisers' help to better customize asset allocation.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 21, 2014
Life insurers launching new variable annuities despite tepid sales

A slump in VA purchases clashes with historical notion that product sales mirror the stock market's trajectory. And insurers are launching new products.

By Darla Mercado
EQUITIES NOV 21, 2014
Global buying binge pumps more air into the bond market run

Start your week with <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, featuring a global bond market mismatch that now has demand far outstripping supply. Plus: Loading up on stocks after retirement, how Larry Summers got it wrong, and new liquid alts players breaks it down for investors and advisers.

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 20, 2014
Making inherited IRAs work after the Supreme Court's Clark decision

Although the assets are not protected from bankruptcy, there are ways to protect them. Legally.

By Robert Cirrotti
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 20, 2014
Caution: New IRS rules for IRA rollovers come with risks for advisers

Guidance from the IRS on its one-IRA-rollover-per-year rule requires advisers to know where clients' money has been or risk a snafu that could sever that relationship.

By Darla Mercado
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 20, 2014
IRS sets cost of living adjustments for 2015

Contribution limits climb but not for IRAs

By Hazel Bradford
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 19, 2014
Mick Jagger highlights a lesson: Insurance is part of an estate plan

His girlfriend's suicide leads to a nasty court fight; could it have been avoided?

By by Andy and Danielle Mayoras
RETIREMENT PLANNING NOV 19, 2014
Basketball star who went bankrupt wishes he'd gotten an MBA

Antoine Walker made $110M, but blew it all and filed for bankruptcy in 2010.

By Bloomberg