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As they prepare for retirement, senior advisors can help young planners become competent and confident financial advisors.

A business can't have value without having profits. Understand how to calculate existing profits - and then make a plan to increase them.

While headlines suggest that the Social Security system is running deficits, the truth is a bit more nuanced. For one thing, investment income is often ignored.

Often overlooked, advisors need to help their clients keep records of their digital assets.

The Insured Retirement Institute is planning the launch of an advisor council this spring.

A former Baird advisor won an arbitration case against his old employer, resulting in a FINRA arbitration panel awarding him $170,000 in damages for defamation.

Nearly 150 million U.S. adults are expected to be banking on their mobile devices by 2018, and lenders can roll out the red carpet with user-friendly apps and modernized branches.

Bernard Madoff's victims are set to get $349 million in a fresh round of payments by the trustee unwinding his firm, a day after five of its ex-employees were convicted of aiding the con man's $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme.

Envestnet has increased its value fivefold since going public. Buyers may take notice.

Both advisors and clients benefit from discussing charitable giving earlier in the year. Here are 10 signs that your clients need help with charitable planning.