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Once a client has made a donation to his or her favored charity, your work has just started. Changes in tax laws, investment values and charitable organizations mean that advisors need to be vigilant.

There are no jurisdictional walls when it comes to the damaging effects of net asset value errors. This realization and the global collaboration taking place to address it are creating the new, global standard for "best practice" with or without the existence of domestic or foreign regulatory policy.

The retirement plan industry is evolving rapidly. Here are a few key trends that will help advisors looking to engage in the retirement plan market.

Madison and Omaha are among the top retirement havens; plus the factors retirees should consider in deciding where to retire and what pre-retirees need to do now.

Once a client has made a donation to his or her favored charity, your work has just started. Changes in tax laws, investment values and charitable organizations mean that advisors need to be vigilant.

Want a better way to help staff improve? Here's how to turn the end-of-the-year ritual into an experience that's productive for you and your employees.

A Morgan Stanley branch manager left the wirehouse to join Raymond James & Associates and help with the firm's expansion plans.

A FINRA arbitration panel ordered an ex-Merrill Lynch advisor to pay his former employer more than $400,000 in damages.

Many investors would like to own high-yielding stocks that have very low risk. Unfortunately, in the real world, such beasts are extremely rare. The following 10 stocks are the current yield champs in the S&P 500 index.

When spouses or other family members can't agree on where to donate their money, it's time for some diplomacy.