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Enforcement actions at the SEC and FINRA highlight emphasis regulators are placing on fees and reverse churning, anti-money laundering programs and variable annuities.

Make one-time contributions to 529 plans without the IRS getting its cut. Plus, how effective planning enhances portfolio returns without the risk.

It is expected that Medicare’s hospital-insurance trust fund will have depleted reserves by 2028 or two years earlier than last year's estimates, according to report.

Your clients’ generous intentions can actually work against them. How to help navigate a thorny but navigable issue.

Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase were among the dissenters, people familiar with the matter said.

To attract new clients—and keep current ones — planners need to step up their game. Here’s how new digital tools can help.

The wirehouse was hit with sanctions from the SEC and FINRA for disregarding securities rules, misusing clients’ cash and not disclosing product costs.

Regulators say ETFs, mutual funds and other investment vehicles should be subject to additional oversight to ensure that managers can sell assets to meet investors’ demands during volatile markets.

The Financial Stability Board concludes that an abrupt exit from the junk bond market won't hit ETF investors the hardest.

The senator has introduced legislation that calls for a database of all retirement accounts, and for investing abandoned accounts in target-date funds.