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The litigation comes amid heated debate over a Department of Labor rule meant to prevent excessive fees on sales of insurance products.

Baseball cards, sneakers, cars, antiques and stuffed animals could sell for a lot of money, or such collections could be a time suck and an emotional drain.

Clients have several options to tackle this unpleasant topic, but for advisors, the best time to start the discussion is now.

Your clients have worked long and hard their entire adult lives to secure a comfortable retirement, so make certain they don't make one of the most common mistakes as they contemplate their options.

A founder of Harbor Lights Financial Group said he and his partners scouted possible private equity buyers and decided LPL was the best option for preserving their firm's legacy.

Firms developing new digital tools like schedulers and AI note-takers are finding that starting out simple saves time and generates adoption.

Activist shareholders targeted 449 companies with mostly large market capitalizations.

Heirs and their financial advisors should start figuring out how to minimize the tax impact of the end of the so-called stretch strategy, experts said.

The wealth management giant questions if there has ever been so large a civil sanction handed down in response to "negligent mistakes" made in an attempt to comply with "unwritten rules."

Fears — including running afoul of regulators or garnering ego-crushing reviews — have kept advisors behind the curve of an already ubiquitous marketing practice. Here's how advisors can play catch-up.