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Seniors may be exempt if they already hold “creditable” prescription drug coverage; plus, taxes on Social Security can be a costly surprise.

All advisors should familiarize themselves with the rule's likely changes to ERISA.

Opinions vary as to whether being a fiduciary advisor draws clients to a firm. Here’s how to determine if it’s a good move for you.

A fundamental role in the securities business is changing — and there’s no going back.

BlackRock and State Street, along with more than a dozen industry participants, are urging regulators to take steps to ward off extreme market volatility.

The fixed-income trade is booming at BlackRock and other investment firms, which are capturing a greater amount of activity -- and fees -- with their ballooning credit ETF businesses.

Many firms default to secretive end-of-year subjective processes to assess compensation. There’s a better way. Fiduciary Network’s Yvonne Kanner offers 9 strategies to fairly reward and keep employees.

With performance thriving and volatility trending lower, investors have pumped cash into high-yield municipal bond funds for the past 22 weeks to extend the sector’s more than two-year recovery.

Demand for global dividend ETFs has picked up.

Among the measures commission officials say they're working on is a third-party examination framework.