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Affluent investors looking for market cues to invest more toward their retirement this year are most watching stock market volatility and improvement in the job market, according to preliminary results from a Merrill Lynch semiannual survey.

State Street Corporation said its exchange-traded fund service, Total ETF, will use cloud-based technology to fully automate the development and management of a fund from basket creation through to trade processing and settlement.

The wealth management industry is adjusting to clients who increasingly expect that they should have anytime, anywhere access to their account information via mobile applications, according to a new study.

Payroll and benefits outsourcing provider Paychex has launched Paychex Advisor Select 401(k), an offering designed for fee-based financial advsors.

Reports focused on Gen X and multi-age workers reveal varied confidence levels when it comes to planning a retirement strategy.

Legacy expert attorneys Andy and Danielle Mayoras say it’s not too late to help your clients tackle an issue that should be among their most important resolutions in the New Year: estate planning.

Electronic alpha capture is poised to become a major workflow tool for every portfolio manager and broker-dealer to help prioritize insights gleaned from incoming data and options, a new report from Tabb Group indicates.

Former Major League Baseball player Douglas Mirabelli and his wife, Kristin Mirabelli, hit a home run in an arbitration dispute with Merrill Lynch this week when a FINRA panel ordered the firm to pay the couple more than $1.2 million.

A FINRA arbitration panel has ordered Citigroup to pay $24 million to a team of financial advisors formerly employed by the firm.

Amid record attendance and formidable growth in its membership ranks, the leaders of the Financial Services Institute insisted that ensuring the organization’s potency as lawmakers define a fiduciary standard for the industry is chief among their strategies and challenges for the coming year.