<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> How investors are playing the markets. Plus: Kitces on the fee vs. commission problem; solving mysteries and who Facebook is leaving in the dust.
IBDs and wirehouses split on potential regulation to reveal recruiting packages
A new policy simulation tool lets users design their own package of reforms to fully fund Social Security. If individual users can make these tough decisions, why can't elected officials?
Difference between claiming strategies could be worth as much as $250,000 in lifetime benefits
Although it could have severe effects on the Russian ruble, experts point to buying opportunities
Has the man behind the virtual currency been revealed? Plus, other must-reads from wealth manager and CNBC commentator Josh Brown
SEC would get funding boost; limits placed on retirement-savings tax breaks for wealthy.
Dave Camp, the Republican House Ways and Means Committee chairman, is filling in the blanks in his plan to revamp the U.S. tax code and leaning on the financial industry to help pay for lower tax rates.
A Senate committee report will reprimand Credit Suisse Group AG for helping American clients dodge taxes and will criticize the Justice Department for not pursuing offshore banks aggressively enough, according to two people with knowledge of the findings.
New retirees are scrambling to get by in one of the least retirement-friendly countries in the developed world.
The firm strikes a $196 million settlement with the SEC over charges it provided cross-border advisory, brokerage services for 8,500 U.S. clients. A Justice Department investigation is pending.
Some divorced spouses are clueless about Social Security benefits
Booming biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors bringing new products to market attract record money
Securities regulators are working to halt what they call a pyramid scheme operated by people outside the U.S. and promoted on social media, promising unrealistic returns to investors.
A former Merrill Lynch broker already serving a 33-month sentence for securities fraud is back in the hot seat after being indicted for an 18-year Ponzi scheme.
Signator moving from career agency to IBD model
But beware that the strategy you use to contribute funds could make or break your retirement
President Obama's plan takes aim at strategies used by upper-income claimants to increase their benefits
President Obama's plan takes aim at strategies used by upper-income claimants to increase their benefits.
