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A Supreme Court ruling highlights the problems that may ensue when an ex-spouse remains a beneficiary for death benefits.

Planners need to help clients express their wishes about end-of-life decisions before it's too late.

The changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program introduce credit underwriting criteria to the product for the first time, which until now only had been using actuarial standards in the decision making process, a reverse mortgage specialist said.

If a storm similar to Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, how many homeowners would default on their mortgage?

The firm snapped up four Merrill Lynch advisors overseeing a total of $3.1 billion in assets.

The agency's chief administrative law judge has dismissed a commission order instituting cease and desist proceedings against two UBS executives in Puerto Rico for allegedly misleading mutual fund investors.

Pimco's Bill Gross said that wealthy Americans, having reaped the benefits of favorable tax treatment, should be willing to pay a greater share to bolster the prospects of the working class.

There’s a major misperception of what a buy-and-hold investment strategy is, but it's what you buy and hold that makes all the difference.

Higher taxes on long-term capital gains may revive interest in like-kind exchanges of investment property.

The former central region president will now oversee the Private Client Reserve and its 1,300 financial professionals nationwide