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RETIREMENT EQUITIES OCT 01, 2014
Pimco Total Return takes big hit

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Gross leaves and the cash follows. Plus: A new robo-adviser enters the market; Schorsch at it again, with a twist; corporations are healthy, healthy, healthy; oil prices are falling; and Elon Musk's next move.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 01, 2014
Dispatch from the retirement front

<i>InvestmentNews</i> contributing editor gives an update on how life has changed since her husband retired.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 29, 2014
Do you speak Social Security?

Many advisers are conversant, but not fluent, in claiming strategies and rules.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 29, 2014
Advice industry adapts to changing concept of retirement

As people live longer, the distribution phase becomes more critical

RETIREMENT RIAS SEP 26, 2014
Bill Gross disciple takes down the 'Bond King'

This edition of <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> covers Bill Gross getting beaten at his own game, the SEC's focus on liquid alt funds, Obama's attack on corporate inversions, and more.

RETIREMENT EQUITIES SEP 24, 2014
Yellen to the markets: Don't say you weren't warned

Midweek <i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Yellen warned us. Plus: SEC probes Pimco ETF over asset pricing, America's 401(k)s are failing investors, and how Obama's attack on corporate inversions flunks basic math.

RETIREMENT RIAS SEP 23, 2014
Market risk is ignored by invincible investors

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A real risk thanks to the bull market: investors' sense of invincibility, plus El-Erian dishes on Pimco, second-guessing Calpers, and more.

RETIREMENT PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 23, 2014
Accredited investor standard up for review

Advisers and others in investment industry disagree about how or whether the accredited investor standard should be changed

Social Security resumes mailing statements
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 22, 2014
Social Security resumes mailing statements

Agency encourages workers to create personal online accounts.

Inversions the latest tax-cutting strategy
RETIREMENT TAX SEP 21, 2014
Inversions the latest tax-cutting strategy

U.S. corporations have been going through a series of reinventions to minimize bite from the IRS.

RETIREMENT TAX SEP 18, 2014
Uncle Sam wants a bigger bite

The Tax Foundation crunched the numbers and came up with estimated brackets and rates for 2015. Looks like brackets are climbing a bit.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 18, 2014
Strategies arise to take advantage of new IRS after-tax rollover

Though after-tax dollars in a 401(k) can now be rolled into a Roth IRA, few employers accept such contributions.

RETIREMENT RIAS SEP 18, 2014
Distinguishing financial planner from investment adviser

Monday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Distinguishing financial planner from investment adviser. Plus: Gold looks tarnished, the Russell 2000 heads into 'death cross' territory, buying stocks in a buyback cycle, bank stocks in a rising-rate market, and another tax penalty, courtesy of Obamacare

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 18, 2014
Student loans imperil parents' retirement

Borrowing or cosigning for a child could mean debts too hard to get out from under

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 18, 2014
Why health care is the ultimate retirement wild card

New study focuses on the need to integrate health care and retirement planning.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 17, 2014
Sometimes the IRS loses in court

Engineer's rollover case points out the need for a good lawyer schooled in tax law.

RETIREMENT TAX SEP 16, 2014
Corporate tax dodging targeted as nations draw up battle plan

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 14, 2014
Romney-sized IRAs scrutinized as government studies taxes

'Never intended to be a tax shelter for millionaires,' Congressman says of retirement savings vehicle.

RETIREMENT EQUITIES SEP 12, 2014
Biotechs riding high as Ebola diagnosed in the U.S.

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Biotechs riding high. Plus: Reading into the market's Halloween indicator, J.P. Morgan steps in another MBS mess, Ford looks like a preview of things to come for stocks, and investing like rich folks, even if you aren't rich yet.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 11, 2014
How a gloomy health prognosis affects Social Security claiming strategy

For one couple, shortened life expectancy is a strong reason to collect benefits early.