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You aren’t the only one who is swamped during the day. There are bound to be people you can’t reach.

More than eight in 10 American millionaires believe that each generation should be responsible for creating its own wealth, up from 65% who said the same thing in 2007 when the survey was last conducted.

As the wealth management industry continues to evolve, financial advisors have a broader range of choices than ever before in determining the structure and growth trajectory of their own practices. Competition for successful advisors with strong books of business among the wirehouses remains fierce, while opportunities for ownership in that world remain elusive.

One day after Goldman announced that it was publishing daily “shadow values” of its money funds, J.P. Morgan Funds and BlackRock are also planning to publish net asset values for their own money funds.

Fresh from year-end tax planning meetings with clients, it is time to identify four areas where great tax planning and great financial planning collide, specifically for people accumulating wealth.

A few years ago, a trio of analysts created a stir when they published two memos suggesting that the American economy had become a “plutonomy” – one that is highly and disproportionately controlled by the extremely wealthy. Keith Webber says that, when looking ahead to the millions of baby boomers who will be retiring in the next 15 years, it’s not hard to envision the idea of retirement turning into a “plutirement,” with two very different retirement realities facing your clients.

As advisors wait to see whether they'll be regulated by the SEC or FINRA, the SEC announced that its enforcement director, Robert Khuzami, will leave the agency.

Goldman Sachs said it will begin publishing values of the assets held in its money market mutual funds in the United States on a daily basis. The first funds for which the daily market values will be published are funds that invest in commercial paper.

A new mobile application from Peak Advisor Alliance aims to revolutionize the client-advisor relationship.

What trends stand to reshape retirement planning in the new year?