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New health care law: advice needed
Financial advisers will have opportunities to help their clients navigate the new health care law.
Tuttle to step down as FPA executive director in 2014
Moving to 'the next phase'; seeking successor who'll champion CFP standards, brand.
Life insurance guidelines could tie captive agents’ hands
Life insurance agents who are limited to selling proprietary products may find it difficult to meet a fiduciary…
Tuttle’s successor at FPA will face challenges
The yet-to-be-named successor to Financial Planning Association executive director and chief executive Marvin W. Tuttle Jr. will have…
Advisers should know their client’s money motives
Helping clients recognize what habits have helped and hurt them is key
Industry groups studying insider trading issue
Industry groups are looking at getting behind proposals that would prohibit members of Congress and others involved in the legislative process from trading stocks or commodities based on nonpublic information related to their work in government
<font color=red>FPA Convention</font> CFP certificants: We’re happy with our career choice
Survey also finds planners mostly serve 'mass affluent'; fewer women are certificants, however
<font color=red>FPA Convention </i></font>CFP Board big bashes adviser SRO
Mohrman-Gillis wants SEC to oversee investment advisers; Finra 'not experienced' in upholding fiduciary standards
SEC charges former president of NAPFA and his firm with taking $2.48M in kickbacks
The SEC has charged James Putman and a colleague with taking $1.24 million each in kickbacks related to unregistered investment pools that their firm managed.
<font color=red>FPA Convention</font> FPA panelists: Don’t always go with the safe bet when hiring
Attendees at annual convention urged to diversify their workforces; 'you have to be willing to be uncomfortable'
<font color=red>FPA Convention</font> FPA exploring cultural, organizational changes
Marty Kurtz is trying to bring cultural change to the association
An SRO for advisers that could give Finra ‘a run for its money’
Washington and New York will be joined by Oxford, Miss., as centers of the investment adviser universe if a group of students from the University of Mississippi law school succeeds in establishing a self-regulatory organization for advisers
Tax reform delays don’t slow efforts to educate Hill
Even though the conventional wisdom in Washington is that Congress won't get around to major tax reform until after the presidential election, financial and insurance companies, and adviser groups are working feverishly to build the foundation for that policy battle
Ex-FPA prez to Congress: Clients looking to earn less to avoid tax hit
Johannessen says proposed 39.6% top marginal rate spooking more-affluent filers
GAO report says planners do not need new regs
Financial planners are sufficiently regulated under current federal and state laws to protect consumers, but some consumer protection issues remain, a government report released last week concluded
Blogs: The insider scoop from the <i>InvestmentNews</i> staff
Attendance at this year's Financial Planning Association conference was about 2,500, up nearly 14% from 2,200 at last year's gathering in Anaheim, Calif
<b>More from the FPA conference</b>: States girding for expanded regulatory role
State regulators are ready to take on the onslaught of new investment advisers who will have to register with them for the first time in coming months.
The inside scoop from FPA Denver 2010 — what do <i>you</i> want to know?
InvestmentNews is off to Denver for the FPA's annual conference
FPA’s Tuttle: No health insurance for members yet
Mr. Tuttle recently talked with InvestmentNews reporter Lisa Shidler about the FPA's political efforts, health insurance for its members, and compensation models
Financial planner deduction? It’s a long shot
When Congress returns from its summer recess in a few weeks, a legislative brawl may well erupt over…
