The deals promised tax deductions worth four to four-and-a-half times a person's investment.
The company's founders, who hail from Financial Engines, have grown the new business to $100 million in assets.
It's likely that a replacement health care plan would have some tax impact, leading to new planning opportunities for financial advisers and their clients.
Allegations include receiving travel, prostitutes and drugs for steering business to two broker-dealers.
Severance pay does not count, nor do trailing insurance commissions.
Identify clients who had these types of retirement distributions and then check for these common errors.
It's not clear how President-elect Donald J. Trump's nominee for Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, would approach the Treasury estate-tax rule.
Severance pay does not count, nor do trailing insurance commissions.
Donald Trump can undo the new rules on financial advisers but not the new skepticism of their advice.
Seventy percent of Americans get a refund after filing their income taxes, yet many of us would rather go to the dentist than do the paper work.
The most surprising aspect of the second round of adviser FAQs is they concentrate on behaviors that will legally and appropriately circumvent fiduciary accountability.
If granted, the change would make it easier for some indexed annuity distributors to sell commission products under the Labor Department regulation.
Differentiating themselves from brokers would be easier now that debate has raised investor awareness of the role of a fiduciary
Advisers can continue to offset a level fee charged on retirement-plan assets with revenue-sharing payments such as 12b-1 fees.
Many advisers think E&O is enough, but these policies target the wayward web.
Communicating the right way can help solve under-performance problems caused by both performance downgrades and cost increases.
Ideology about the role of government in the free market and concerns over effective implementation of the auto-IRAs are primary factors.
In latest dispatch from the retirement front, IN editor crunches healthcare numbers.
A report produced annually for Congress includes 20 or more of the most serious problems taxpayers face when dealing with the agency.
