About 30,000 current and former annuity owners claim company failed to pay proper dividends on contracts sold 30 years ago.
Advisers with assets over $1 billion are outperforming their peers. Does your firm have what it takes to be a billion dollar baby?
Consumer groups say the agency has been preoccupied with market issues to the detriment of the public and needs to tighten adviser oversight.
This offer affects more than 30 types of variable annuity contracts issued by the insurer
Financial advisers serious about growing their businesses in 2015 seem to be voicing similar concerns in our discussions.
Jo Ellen Fisher, an independent contractor with Raymond James Financial Services, allegedly stole $925,000 from a 95-year-old client to fund personal expenses, Finra says.
The majority of financial advisers are missing the boat when it comes to having important conversations with clients about passing wealth on to the next generation — thereby losing a big opportunity to hold onto those assets after those clients die, according to a new survey.
As online advice firms continue to mimic each other, they will come under pressure to differentiate themselves through new services and lower costs.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Smart beta is here to stay, so you might as well try and figure out what the heck it is.
Secretary Perez has confidence his agency will complete work on the rule before Obama's term ends.
Competency hearings and splits in the family are more common than you may realize.
Longtime adviser-sales manager will move to a new role after the firm's best year ever.
Charles Schwab & Co. will unveil its white label online platform for advisers in the second quarter.
Don't forget that a spike in rates will hurt ARM mortgages, HELOCs and variable-rate student loans.
SEC chairwoman says she will push the agency this year to make a decision on whether to raise investment advice standards for brokers but once again declined to provide a timeline.
New acquisition by nontraded REIT czar costing him &mdash; $3.74 million in Texas state court settlement over sale of DBSI notes.
Social media will be essential, and instead of going full automation, pair investing technology with a professional.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The president's 2016 budget lets workers tap into their 401(k)s penalty-free once unemployment runs out.
Pilot raised more than $9 billion last year along with hopes for more direct-to-consumer fund sales.
Corporate-only tax reform faces resistance for leaving out sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs and S corporations.
