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Macquarie Group has announced several senior leadership appointments as well as 14 additions to its U.S. equity sales and sales trading teams.

Ask Ed Slott: Your IRA Expert explains when and why it’s best to use the five-year rule for distributions from an inherited IRA.

As of March 31, U.S. retirement assets totaled $18.9 trillion, up 6.3% from $17.8 trillion in the previous quarter.

Hundreds of delinquent medium-sized RIAs must register with their respective states by today’s SEC deadline or face the prospect of being de-registered as early as Sept. 1.

Steve Sanduski, “The Prosperous Advisor,” says when the markets turn turbulent, great advisors figure exactly what to do and say to calm down their anxious clients.

A third of Vanguard’s 401(k) plan participants turned their entire retirement account over to professional managers, either in the form of a target-date or balanced fund, or they enrolled in the company’s managed account program.

Frederick (Rick) Wise and Jonathan Block will be joining the firm as managing directors and senior equity research analysts covering healthcare. In addition, Robert Mains has joined the firm as a managing director, providing research coverage of healthcare providers and real estate companies.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is rolling out LinkedIn and Twitter to its full 17,000-member financial advisor force with the aim of helping to make time spent in front of the computer more effective than cold calling client prospects.

Putnam Investments today unveiled a trio of new hires in the defined contribution investment-only and DC advisor-sold channels.

The new hires represent only a small fraction of the more than 250 financial planners that Baird has brought on since 2009 and compliment the approximately 15 offices the company has opened in the same period. According to John Mabee, vice chairman of Baird Private Wealth Management, the firm is not looking to stop now.