Practice

Focusing on a client niche can boost a planning practice. Among high-performing firms with a target client profile, just 3% pursue opportunities outside of that profile (versus 11% for all other firms surveyed), according to the 2012 Fidelity RIA Benchmarking Study.

Before you can begin tailoring your approach to working with women, you first need to understand some of the attributes that make them uniquely different from male clients. Blogger Laura Kogen examines five key differences in how men and women communicate, relate interpersonally, learn, are hardwired, and view wealth.

Target-date funds have grown phenomenally in the past five years from virtually no assets in 2007 to about $1 trillion today.

Mutual fund shops take heed. PIMCO's 2013 Defined Contribution Consulting Support and Trends Survey sheds light on how consultants are helping their plan sponsor clients design their plans around target-date and retirement income products.

UBS Financial Services has picked up three financial advisors from Morgan Stanley in Arizona and Indiana who managed $467 million in client assets.

A former Financial Industry Regulatory Authority employee filed a whistle-blower suit in federal court, claiming he was fired after detecting a flaw in a Finra’s risk-rating system that allowed large broker-dealers to be over-leveraged.

A bout of forgetfulness may be a classic sign of aging, or it could point to more serious health problems, such as Alzheimer’s.

Those who do use advisors are scrutinizing the guidance they get and realizing that true value is more than just investment returns.

Your IRA Expert answers the question of how the executor of a will can pay off debt with an inherited IRA.

Financial advisors with clients who have been awarded pension rights in a divorce should follow up to see if the proper procedures to claim those rights have been followed; if not, advisors should urge immediate action.