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RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 25, 2014
How well do you know your aging clients?

By Legg Mason Global Asset Management
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 25, 2014
How advisers can help clients deal with Alzheimer's

The inability to manage money is one of the earliest indications that a client may have Alzheimer's disease

By Dr. Robert Pokorski
OPINION MAY 23, 2014
How much would you pay for a safer car?

A cost-benefit analysis of a new regulation came up short when it only counted dollars. Then, regulators asked how much more a young child's life is worth.

By Cass R. Sunstein
EQUITIES MAY 23, 2014
The housing recovery is falling flat

On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, the housing recovery might have fizzled out. Plus more on junk bond yields, a big Barclays fine and much more.

By Jeff Benjamin
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 23, 2014
Valerie Brown out at Cetera

Valerie Brown, longtime head of Cetera Financial Group and its predecessor ING broker-dealers, has stepped down and is being replaced by Larry Roth.

By Bruce Kelly
The tricky first-year rule for working while collecting Social Security
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 23, 2014
The tricky first-year rule for working while collecting Social Security

New retirees can use monthly rather than annual earnings limit.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Delaying Social Security can outperform investment returns
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 23, 2014
Delaying Social Security can outperform investment returns

But break-even period can be at least 20 years.

By Mary Beth Franklin
Social Security earnings limits can reduce spousal benefits, too
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 23, 2014
Social Security earnings limits can reduce spousal benefits, too

Earnings restrictions disappear at full retirement age.

By Mary Beth Franklin
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 23, 2014
Baby boomer, Gen X women fear not having enough retirement savings

Congresswoman encourages growth in number of female financial advisers.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 23, 2014
4 reasons you keep losing your best employees

High employee turnover is brutal for a service business such as financial advice. Joe Duran on how to create a dynamic culture within your office.

By Joe Duran
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 23, 2014
Larry Roth's doing a lot more than selling nontraded REITs

There's hard evidence that he has been the architect behind Nick Schorsch's growing broker-dealer empire.

By Bruce Kelly
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 23, 2014
The adviser of the future: 3 trends of tomorrow

The future of business is being determined at breakneck speed. Joe Duran says that the companies of tomorrow are tapping into a few deep-seated human desires today.

By Joe Duran
ALTERNATIVES MAY 23, 2014
Nontraded REIT Inland Diversified Real Estate Trust to merge with Kite Realty Group Trust

Inland Diversified Real Estate Trust has agreed to merge with a publicly traded REIT in a $2.1 billion all-stock deal. The transaction represents average annualized return of 8% for investors. Bruce Kelly reports.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 23, 2014
Erica McGinnis' big plans for Advisor Group are taking shape

By Bruce Kelly
EQUITIES MAY 22, 2014
European stocks hit six-year high on fifth day of rally

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Euro stocks rally but for how long?. Plus: The China risk, big money managers are flush once again, the future of airplane seating, and 21 inspirational yearbook quotes.

By Jeff Benjamin
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAY 22, 2014
Former Treasury Secretary Geithner warns of calm before market storm

On the heels of publishing his new memoir, the former Treasury secretary talks about how today's market lull is reminiscent of the environment leading up to the crisis.

By lkonish
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 22, 2014
Erinn Ford named president of Cetera Advisors

Move is the latest in a series of management changes at Cetera Financial Group.

By Bruce Kelly
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 22, 2014
Behavioral finance gaining traction on the conference circuit

Behavioral finance is the hot topic at financial advisory conferences.

By Liz Skinner
EQUITIES MAY 22, 2014
Ukraine's new resistance to Russia draws attention back to the macroeconomic fallout

<i>Friday's menu:</i> Ukraine heats up and fund winners and losers come into focus. Plus: Fed-speak clarity: an oxymoron? Bank loan funds fall victim to Fed policy, Obamacare drags us back to the 1950s and banks square off with Big Labor in Vegas.

By Jeff Benjamin
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAY 21, 2014
Will the SEC use its extra funding to strengthen adviser oversight?

Now that it looks like the SEC will get an additional $150 million in funding, speculation is mounting on how the funds will be deployed. Is increasing adviser oversight going to be a priority?

By Mark Schoeff Jr.