House is expected to vote Wednesday on legislation that would extend retroactively for one year an assortment of individual and business tax breaks.
Convinced of Social Security's shakiness, those born from 1979 to 1996 participate in retirement plans at high rates, according to one study.
Bringing bill to a floor vote expected for political gain: The issue may well play out in the Presidential election.
Chicago-based team has moved to LPL's hybrid RIA platform.
As stocks cross a symbolic threshold, advisers fear clients' rushing in at potential market peak.
Recent Supreme Court decision preventing bankruptcy protection for these assets calls for careful planning strategies.
From Bill Winterberg: Which features of Apple's latest operating system advisers need to know. Plus his highlights from Apple's 2014 World Wide Developers Conference.
Why did Sterne Agee <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140527/FREE/140529934">fire CEO James Holbrook Jr.?</a> Many want to know, especially since the firm and its former CEO were recently accused of all manner of professional hanky-panky.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin: Why there's no excitement for this stock rally. </i>Plus: Fee-only RIAs in the catbird seat but they can't relax; the active ETF world heating up; what QE has wrought; on Phil Mickelson and insider trading; and Apple's big day.
Affiliated Managers Group Inc., the company that owns stakes in more than two dozen money managers, said first-quarter profit rose 11% as the rally in global stocks boosted assets under management.
Low-cost index funds capturing 25% of new assets but drive just 5% of revenue.
New unit will influence product selections for 15,000 advisers managing $1.6 trillion in assets.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Carl Icahn warns that stocks are on risky ground. Plus: Interest rates and volatility are raising red flags, one man's take on the Fed-fueled bubble, the SEC is watching for political-donation conflicts, gold gets no respect, and institutional money is chasing solar energy stocks.
In a recent survey, more 50% of advisers said they are deterred from social media either by regulators or their own firms.
Investment advisers need to be doing a better job of reaching out to “Generation Now” as clients retire and draw down assets
Stephen Davis joins the firm after spending his entire 21-year career at Merrill.
Victims of R. Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme can sue outside companies and law firms alleged to have played a role in the fraud, the Supreme Court has ruled, dealing a setback to the securities industry.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Barclays: Following in the footsteps of Sallie Krawcheck. Plus: The volatility play: Cheap but risky, bond managers brace for higher rates, dancing around the issue of student loan debt, and a potato salad venture whets the tax man's appetite.
