Stocks rallied as investors piled into risk assets, sending emerging-market currencies and shares higher after a weakening yuan triggered losses in Asian markets. Crude rose to above $30 a barrel.
Investors should brace for a tough year in U.S. equities as a presidential race dominated by political outsiders will only compound market anxiety over slumping oil and a slowing global economy, according to Wells Fargo & Co.
Financial stocks were the one of the hottest areas in late 2015, and most advisers believed the trend would carry well into the new year. So what went wrong this year?
What the state of adviser recruiting might look like in 2016, from the wirehouses to the independent space
Advisers that embrace this disruption and offer a wider range of services will thrive and prosper in the digital age.
More than 40 million Americans are in a second or third marriage. Here's how to make sure you plan properly for your step family.
The Massachusetts senator and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., assert four large insurance companies are telling regulators and shareholders different tales.
U.S. stocks fell as investors shunned risk worldwide amid concern that central-bank efforts to support growth are losing their potency.
Advice industry is in the early innings of what promises to be a new period of major technological change.
The amount of education debt held by people 65 and older ballooned to $18.2 billion in 2013, from $2.8 billion in 2005.
His mother's early death and a critical illness of his own contributed to Mr. Purcell's view of the world and the way he leads his firm's 3,200 professionals.
Fortress says infrastructure in Japan among bright spots of Abenomics
A cartoonist's look at what happens when rates go negative.
U.S. stocks rose as trading resumed after a holiday, catching up with gains in global equities Monday while weakness in crude oil tempered an early advance.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> His proposed financial-transaction taxes would supposedly collect tens of billions, and Wall Street would likely pay for a lot of the free stuff he hopes to offer as president.
Michael Kitces explains how the president's fiscal 2017 budget affects retirement, estate and other tax law.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Gold rallies amid the ongoing stock selloff to once again become the safe-haven play.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates that half of all self-prepared individual tax returns contain at least one error, compared to 60% of returns completed by a paid preparer.
Here are a few scenarios that can help you guide your clients' decisions.
They agree with intent of possible legislation, but worry about compliance costs.
