If it wants to avoid potentially onerous new regulations and a slew of negative headlines, the life insurance industry must band together immediately and establish universally accepted guidelines for identifying deceased policyholders and disbursing benefits to beneficiaries
In addition to satisfying regulators, the wealth of information contained in revised ADV forms may be a gold mine of competitive intelligence
Advisers love exchange-traded funds. What they may not like so much: the execution of ETF trades -- particularly for less liquid funds -- can hit clients in the wallet
With the Bush tax cuts extended for another two years, the status remains quo on major — and imminent — potential changes in tax law, right?
Behavioral-finance experts have come up with a few strategies for financial advisers working to help clients overcome natural human tendencies that can lead to money-related mistakes.
Ten months after the death of its former chief executive, wealth management firm Rockefeller Financial today hired Reuben Jeffery III, a former government official and Goldman Sachs' executive, as its chief executive.
System failures in recent weeks involving such companies as Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Corp. have cast doubts on the security and reliability of cloud computing, and should put financial advisers on high alert
You had to figure the issue of means testing for entitlement programs would split Republicans and Democrats. And it has -- just not the way you'd think.
In its zeal to improve protection of retirement plan participants from bad advice and conflicts of interest, the Department of Labor is proposing a rule change that, though well-intended, is too broad and may leave some participants more vulnerable than they already are
The cumulative wealth of the world's richest households will more than double, to $202 trillion over the next ten years, according to a study conducted by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services and Oxford Economics.
What do Ben S. Bernanke and his fellow Federal Reserve monetary policymakers not see?
The time has come for Congress to cut the purse strings that have long impeded the SEC's ability to do its job
BrightScope Inc. has launched a free online service that will allow investors to look up financial advisers
Virginia-based firm looking to add more wirehouse advisers; founder touts adviser transition program
Following a quarter in which it sustained nearly $13 billion in net outflows, Legg Mason Inc. is reorganizing its senior ranks
Steve Kluever has parted ways with Jackson National Life Insurance Co., joining The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and heralding a new push in variable annuity development for the insurer
Revenues up, net new assets up, custody business up. It's hard to find much that went wrong for the discount brokerage in the first quarter of the year.
A Fidelity survey finds advisers and brokers are still striking out on their own. And they're taking more and more of their assets with them when they leave.
Jamey Delaplane, partner at law firm Davis & Harman LLP, warned advisers in attendance at the <i>InvestmentNews</i> Retirement Income Summit that IRAs are likely to come under increased regulatory scrutiny.
