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Ask Ed Slott: Your IRA Expert answers readers’ questions about stretch IRAs for beneficiaries and required minimum distributions.

Deloitte survey also finds risks not continuously monitored at most firms despite available automation; most intend to revamp risk management within 12 months.

The SEC named Norm Champ director of the agency’s division of investment management, replacing Eileen Rominger, who is retiring.

The SEC approved a pilot plan that will allow some orders to go undisplayed on the New York Stock Exchange as a way for the biggest stock trading venue to attract individual investors.

Small Sacrifices app encourages customers to channel coffee and cigarette buying habits into savings goals.

A federal appeals court struck down Goldman Sachs’ appeal of a $20.6 million arbitration award decision on Tuesday, holding up the original 2010 decision in favor of creditors of the Bayou Group.

It's easy to underestimate how important philanthropy is to clients.

William Blair & Co. has turned off the spigot on the William Blair International Growth Fund and Institutional International Growth Fund, effective June 30.

Laurence D. Fink used at least half a dozen acquisitions to expand BlackRock Inc. from a boutique bond shop to the world’s biggest money manager. Now the firm, which invests $3.7 trillion for clients around the world, faces a new challenge: Growing on its own.

An investment management firm now owned by Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims that it misled investors about the makeup of a mutual fund it once marketed.