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UBS nears wealth management turnaround, as outflows taper off
RIAS OCT 22, 2010
UBS nears wealth management turnaround, as outflows taper off

UBS AG, Switzerland's biggest bank, will probably report a fourth straight quarterly profit tomorrow and the lowest wealth management redemptions since 2008.

REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 22, 2010
Financial adviser — and ex-UBS client — gets jail time for Swiss accounts

Hernandez evaded paying taxes on $8.8M; advised wealthy clients on -- yep -- taxes and offshore trusts

Beware of wealthy clients' 'impossible demands': Barclays
RIAS OCT 22, 2010
Beware of wealthy clients' 'impossible demands': Barclays

The world's richest clients often come with “impossible demands,” push margins down and cause internal conflict with investment banking colleagues, said the vice chairman of Barclays Plc's wealth management unit.

RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 22, 2010
Suit seeks $30M in Madoff family money

The court-appointed trustee seeking to recover billions of dollars lost by jailed financier Bernard Madoff sued three entities Thursday to get back more than $30 million that he said the Madoff family had invested, mostly in oil and gas properties and technology companies.

TAX OCT 22, 2010
UBS clients race to avoid stiff IRS penalties -- and possible jail time

U.S. citizens and residents with UBS AG accounts are racing the clock to disclose their secret holdings to the Internal Revenue Service after the Swiss Parliament ratified an agreement to surrender the names of 4,450 bank clients, tax lawyers said.

RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 20, 2010
Advisers look to calm freaked-out clients

High anxiety abounds as economy, markets stall; detailing the risks of risk-aversion

RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 19, 2010
DC assets under management bounced back a bit in 2009

Defined-contribution managers bounced back a bit by year-end 2009 from the morose markets of 2008 as assets under management rose 19.7%

RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 19, 2010
Special report: Alternative investments

Chalk up another hard-earned lesson from the financial crisis: Investors in limited partnerships, the structure of choice for most alternative investments, discovered that giving up liquidity in exchange for higher returns wasn't such a good idea after all.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 19, 2010
401(k) advisers don't see annuities as income solution

While retirement industry leaders last week pressed officials from the Labor and Treasury departments to make it easier to include annuities in 401(k) plans, many investment firms and advisers said they aren't pinning their hopes on the annuity proposal and are looking for income solutions that don't involve insurance.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 19, 2010
Tax fears spell opportunity for insurance agents

RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 19, 2010
LPL looks for gold in DC market

Through its recently announced purchase of National Retirement Partners Inc., LPL Investment Holdings Inc. is set to enter the demanding and competitive market for smaller to midsize retirement plans.

RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 19, 2010
DOL finally issues new 401(k) fee disclosure rules

REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 18, 2010
Tax policies up in the air before election

Investment advisers and their clients may want to wait before crafting financial strategies to address the tax relief and spending proposals outlined last week by President Barack Obama.

REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 18, 2010
Obama stumps for tax plan -- but tax planning could stump advisers

Investment advisers and their clients may want to wait before crafting financial strategies to address the tax-relief and spending proposals outlined today by President Barack Obama.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 17, 2010
Advisers find niche deep in the Corn belt

At first glance, financial advisers seem to be about as suited for farm life as Lisa Douglas, the overdressed socialite who was dragged from her Manhattan penthouse to a farm in the hit TV show “Green Acres.”

Ramped-up IRA withdrawals this year could cut retirees' taxes next year
RIAS OCT 15, 2010
Ramped-up IRA withdrawals this year could cut retirees' taxes next year

Looming hike marginal tax rates makes 2010 a good time to take bigger distributions, say advisers

RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 15, 2010
Dangers in using IRAs for business startups

When the Internal Revenue Service names a transaction “Robs,” that can't be good.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 15, 2010
Fiduciary standard's biggest critic? Insurance agents

The staunchest opposition to a universal fiduciary standard that would put clients' interests first isn't from securities brokers. It's from insurance agents, comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission show.

Wealth manager with the most cachet? A new king is crowned
RIAS OCT 15, 2010
Wealth manager with the most cachet? A new king is crowned

Boston Private Bank & Trust, Inc. has knocked Bessemer Trust Co. off its perch in a poll of wealthy consumers.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 13, 2010
Regulator seeks bigger backstop for retained-asset accounts

New Jersey's insurance commissioner is proposing an amendment which would provide unlimited coverage in the case of certain insolvencies