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Advisors’ usage of social media includes platforms like Pinterest, where they showcase lifestyle-oriented content to their clients and potential clients.

Elder care expert cautions that advisors must put a formal plan in place to help protect clients if they start to lose their faculties.

Only about one-third of CFPs say their clients are even somewhat knowledgeable about claiming Social Security benefits, according to a new join study from the FPA and AARP.

Merger of two LPL practices seeks to expand a new niche; banks seek non-interest, fee-based income from independent planners.

Rules dealing with liquidity and other market-related items may be a better strategy for asset managers than higher capital requirements, said Federal Reserve Board Gov. Daniel Tarullo.

Help clients protect what has taken them a lifetime to accumulate.

The assets that clients used intensively when first purchased (like a large house) come to have excess capacity over time; Plus, two big reasons clients need more savings.

A slideshow of education-related tax opportunities

New, sweeping SEC proposals aimed at enhancing the liquidity risk management practices of mutual funds and ETFs have the asset management industry greatly concerned about unintended consequences affecting their businesses.

It's not about social media, it's about being visible when the prospective client has a goal or a need you can help with, says author David Meerman Scott.