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RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 14, 2010
“Secret” Social Security strategies for advisers

Many financial planners are in the dark about ways to help clients boost their monthly government checks. That needs to change, says one expert.

By Lisa Shidler
RIA NEWS MAY 14, 2010
Raymond James' Jeffrey D. Saut: The game of risk

The following is an investment strategy column by Jeffrey D. Saut, managing director at Raymond James & Associates Inc.

By Jeffrey D. Saut
RIA NEWS MAY 14, 2010
Putnam eyeing actively managed ETFs, CEO Reynolds says

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 14, 2010
Putnam to launch guaranteed fund early next year

Putnam Investments is planning to launch a mutual fund with a guarantee in the first quarter of next year.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
Bill Gates' father: 'Rich people aren't paying enough' in taxes
RIA NEWS MAY 13, 2010
Bill Gates' father: 'Rich people aren't paying enough' in taxes

The software billionaire's father is spearheading an initiative to impose a state tax on Washington's wealthy

By John Goff
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 13, 2010
Andrew Lo on 'Geriatric Finance': When the planning needs to start

Investors should plan now for when and how financial decisions should be made if they become impaired, says investment strategist and professor Andrew Lo.

By Mark Bruno
How to play the new volatility
RIA NEWS MAY 13, 2010
How to play the new volatility

There's a rollercoaster on Wall Street right now. And it's making retail investors and financial advisers downright queasy. But to one money manager, short-term stock market volatility represents pure opportunity.

By Jeff Benjamin
RIA NEWS MAY 13, 2010
Taxes on dividends may nearly triple

Under current law, the Medicare payroll tax applies only to wages.

By Robert N. Gordon
WIREHOUSES MAY 13, 2010
Wall Street bigs asked to sign off on fiduciary duty

The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard takes a different tack in its bid to eliminate the broker-dealer exclusion

By Dan Jamieson
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
Latest fascination for hedgies? Mutual funds

The prospect of tough new regulations in Europe has hedge funds hopping on the 'Ucits' bandwagon. But questions about liquidity, custody dog these collective-investment vehicles

By Bloomberg
Shareholders refuse to put nail in golden coffin
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 12, 2010
Shareholders refuse to put nail in golden coffin

17 of Fortune 100 companies provide death benefits for heirs of top execs. Omnicom stockowners are just the latest to vote down a 'pay-for-no-pulse' proposal

By Aaron Elstein
Roubini: U.S. likely target for 'bond vigilantes'
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
Roubini: U.S. likely target for 'bond vigilantes'

Dr. Doom says bond traders may start unloading government paper -- and, in turn, drive the price of borrowing up

By Bloomberg
When will the job picture improve? Stiglitz offers bleak prediction
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
When will the job picture improve? Stiglitz offers bleak prediction

With the dollar losing the 'negative beauty show' to the euro, the Nobel laureate doesn't see the job picture improving until the middle of the decade

By Jeff Benjamin
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
Tale of the tape

Note to independent advisers: It's time to measure yourselves against a bigger stick.

By Danny Sarch
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES MAY 12, 2010
Forget Conseco – now it's CNO Financial

Financial services company with troubled past changes corporate name; 'new beginning'

By Darla Mercado
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
Goldman rivals: SEC hasn't queried us on CDO deals

The Securities and Exchange Commission hasn't contacted Citigroup Inc. or Morgan Stanley about their sales of collateralized debt obligations or other securitized vehicles in the wake of its charges that The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. engaged in fraud in the sale of such securities, according to executives at the two firms.

By Jed Horowitz
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
Smith Barney deal helps boost Morgan Stanley earnings

Morgan Stanley, in its first profit report under Chief Executive Officer James Gorman, posted earnings that beat analysts' estimates as fixed-income trading revenue more than doubled from a year earlier.

By Bloomberg
Investment upset: College kids dunk on the pros
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
Investment upset: College kids dunk on the pros

In 2008, the S&amp;P 500 fell 37%. University endowments fared somewhat better, losing 18.7% of their value. Student-managed assets, on the other hand, shrank by a mere 16.2%, according to <i>InvestmentNews</i> research.

By Mukund Multani
WIREHOUSES MAY 12, 2010
Krawcheck snags ex-Smith Barney top exec

Bank of America Corp. announced today that Kunal Kamlani has been named head of global investment solutions, reporting to his former colleague at Citigroup, Sallie Krawcheck, president of global wealth and investment management.

By Hilary Johnson
RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2010
Charles Goldman to leave Fidelity

Charles Goldman, who one year ago joined Fidelity Investments to run its RIA custody, correspondent clearing and family office businesses, is leaving the firm.

By Jed Horowitz