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Newly bereaved spouses can face a host of unfamiliar financial issues, and older women are at particular risk. Here are a few specific ways that advisors can help.

Plan sponsors face mounting fiduciary responsibilities, and both sponsors and participants crave advice. Both those trends give RIAs a fiduciary edge in seeking growth.

Bob Kerrey, a former U.S. Senator and governor of Nebraska, says that people who have Social Security as their only source of income need more help: Plus, cheap oil prices won't cause your 401(k) to crash.

Reducing taxes by using previous capital losses to offset current investment gains and why raising the capital gains tax should be considered.

Bank advisors produced an average of $32,888 in revenue in November of 2014, down 16% from the previous month, according to BISRA's most recent Monthly Bank Investment Services Monitor.

Many advisors miss the old culture at their firms. What exactly are they longing for?

A wealth manager with 30 years of experience left Citigroup Global Markets to join the year-old Lebenthal Wealth Advisors as a producing branch manager.

Two advisors left Barclays to join regional bank First Republic.

Norm Champ, the SEC’s director of investment management, will resign after five years at the agency, the SEC said.

The top regulator of mutual funds, private equity and hedge funds at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will step down later this month.