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Nationwide Financial is getting into the retirement market.

So many advisors feel alone, are afraid to admit it, and do not know what to do about it. It is a people focused job, true, you get to interact with your clients but so few have people to talk to about being an advisor. So Matt Halloran asks, what can you do to get out of your office and inspire your practice?

The Internal Revenue Service is struggling to respond to an onslaught of tax returns filed on April 15, which is delaying acknowledgements to both federal and state returns.

Janus Capital Group has appointed Michael Stern as regional sales director to spearhead the expansion of Janus’ intermediary distribution and sales in New York City.

Securities and Exchange Commission commissioners and panelists at a roundtable Tuesday wrestled with how to improve the transparency of municipal bond trading and prices, particularly for retail investors.

In the financial services industry the only thing that an advisor can guarantee to clients is that there will always be change. However, how individuals respond to change may vary. It is the way in which you choose to respond that makes a difference.

With a bullish outlook for careers in financial planning, TD Ameritrade Institutional has created a scholarship fund aimed at injecting fresh blood into the industry.

An enforcement action from the Securities & Exchange Commission is a timely reminder to advisors to disclose any financial benefits their firm may receive from the broker-dealer it recommends to clients.

FINRA fined Merrill $1.05 million and ordered the firm to pay more than $323,000 in restitution for over 12,000 trades executed on its ML BondMarket platform.

Small businesses are more likely to comply with the tax laws if they are in certain communities in the country and if they have more trust in their tax preparer, according to a report by the Taxpayer Advocate Service.