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Obama to advisers: 'No more tax monkey business'
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2011
Obama to advisers: 'No more tax monkey business'

President Barack Obama is making his clearest pitch yet for an overhaul of the entire U.S. tax code for individuals and businesses, and the wealthy probably won't like it.

Ex-FPA prez to Congress: Clients looking to earn less to avoid tax hit
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2011
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

NEWS RIAS APR 17, 2011
Time to give the real capital providers a break

The Federal Reserve Board's low-interest-rate policy has hurt retirees, which was anticipated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> in an editorial last year.

NEWS RIAS APR 17, 2011
Pay attention to younger investors

NEWS RIAS APR 17, 2011
Tips from top RIAs: Jon Yankee

In this one-on-one with Kelli Cruz, the director of custom research at InvestmentNews, Jon Yankee, partner and CFO at Fox, Joss &amp; Yankee, shares his thoughts on staffing and recruiting.

NEWS RIAS APR 15, 2011
Dynasty snags a Schwab big to head RIA business

Dynasty Financial Partners LLC has hired Loren Morris as director of RIA services.

Tax reform could mow down deductions, special cap gains treatment
NEWS RIAS APR 15, 2011
Tax reform could mow down deductions, special cap gains treatment

The mortgage expense tax deduction and other 'sacred cows' would be gutted under an influential lawmaker's tax proposal

NEWS RIAS APR 11, 2011
Top state securities cop to step down before 'the switch'

Ralph Lambiase, longtime director of securities for the state of Connecticut, will be retiring on Feb. 28. Mr. Lambiase, who has been a regulator with the state for 33 years, announced his departure earlier this month to his staff.

NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2011
It's time to remind clients to vote their proxies

The peak of the corporate proxy season is at hand, and advisers should remind their stock-owning clients to vote their proxies

NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2011
Dynasty hires Schwab alum to aid RIAs

Dynasty Financial Partners LLC has hired Loren Morris as director of RIA services

Fidelity snags LPL exec to run family office program
NEWS RIAS APR 06, 2011
Fidelity snags LPL exec to run family office program

Norton to run UHNW program for RIAs

NEWS RIAS APR 05, 2011
Public pension crisis has some bracing for worst

Legislative ambiguity about public pension funds, as well as their underfunded status, has financial advisers who work with public employees scrambling to plug holes in their retirement plans

What clients hear when advisers talk: Blah blah blah
NEWS RIAS APR 05, 2011
What clients hear when advisers talk: Blah blah blah

Investors say they want clearer explanations about strategies, losses; close to half do their own planning, survey shows

NEWS RIAS APR 04, 2011
CFP Board taps Merrill Lynch exec to run biz development

Aiming to extend its outreach to large financial services firms, the CFP Board has hired Joseph V. Maugeri as its director of business development.

Sallie Krawcheck: Bring on the indies
NEWS RIAS APR 04, 2011
Sallie Krawcheck: Bring on the indies

The BofA-Merrill boss sounds set to take on recruiters, the threat of the rising RIA model, and anyone else who steps in her path

NEWS RIAS APR 04, 2011
BofA slaps 'garden leave' restrictions on advisers

Has Bank of America Corp. upped the ante in the battle between the wirehouses and the independent advisory firms gunning for their top producers?

You having a laugh, mate? U.K. proposes $225 a week flat-rate state pension
NEWS RIAS APR 03, 2011
You having a laugh, mate? U.K. proposes $225 a week flat-rate state pension

The U.K. government proposed replacing its current means-tested state pension with a flat-rate payment of about 140 pounds ($225) a week, with the goal of increasing incentives for people to save for their old age.

NEWS RIAS APR 03, 2011
Some states give a break on the deadline for filing ADVs

Although many federally registered advisers were scrambling last week to meet the March 31 filing date for the new ADV Part 2 forms, state-registered advisers in several states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas, were enjoying a bit of a reprieve

NEWS RIAS APR 03, 2011
Gen X/Y: Advisers just don't understand

Advisers and Generation X and Y investors aren't seeing eye to eye on investment issues

NEWS RIAS APR 03, 2011
CFPB should not be undermined

Republican lawmakers should stand down in their efforts to delay and obstruct the shaping of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which if properly implemented will go down in history as the most significant and innovative change to come out of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law