Most of the loans' issues have been solved, or at least ameliorated.
Women's financial concerns and goals vary widely, depending on factors such as age, professional standing and marital status.
It's not about aligning the right personalities — effective teams require maximizing individual strengths and building trust.
Fiduciaries need to be well versed in these low-cost investment vehicles and how to assess them.
Sudden withdrawal of DOL's Timothy Hauser from a panel at the Insured Retirement Institute conference was a blunder.
Maximizing the potential for positive participant outcomes, and minimizing regulatory and litigation risks, requires close analysis of QDIAs.
Advisers share what they learned from their fathers — and what they are eager to impress upon their kids.
Financial advisers have both the blessing and obligation to help people cope with their money anxiety.
You can't begin to help them avoid falling into this trap until you empathize with them.
Financial advisers may function more as coaches or marriage counselors as robos increasingly handle investment management for clients at all asset levels.
Advisers discuss the structure of their annual meetings away from the office, which often include the top brass and mix a little social time with business.
Finra's CEO was one of the sharpest critics of the proposed rule, but now he's praising the Labor Department. <i><b>(More: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/section/fiduciary-focus" target="_blank">Coverage of the DOL rule from every angle</a>)</i></b>
Sweep reminds broker-dealers they're going to be held accountable for hiring brokers who prove not fit to work in the industry.
Four states introduce accounts that help families save for special needs children
J.M. Egan Wealth Advisors will move into HighTower's New York headquarters, while maintaining offices in Madison and Sea Girt, N.J.
The DOL fiduciary rule will forever change financial advice, and the industry now faces the challenge of adapting to the new regulation.
The mergers we may see as a by-product of the DOL rule are likely to be trickier &mdash; and more permanent &mdash; affiliations, and advisers will need to do their homework.
The Labor Department's determination to move ahead with the fiduciary rule in spite of others' grave misgivings has left us with no other choice than to bring this issue before a court of law.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Timothy Hauser was scheduled to participate but abruptly backed out late last week, after the Insured Retirement Institute joined a lawsuit seeking to vacate the rule.
If a firm's transition to the Best Interest Contract Exemption is done using paper contracts and disclosure forms, it could be costly, difficult and risky to manage.
