Portfolio

Children receiving gift money may face a kiddie tax. Plus, the best investment accounts for paying off a client's mortgage, and including income from hobbies in a client's returns.

Deferred–tax retirement accounts’ required mandatory distributions might prompt this unwelcome scenario.

How to develop good interviewing skills at the onset of a client-advisor relationship.

The team left J.P. Morgan Securities to form their own independent firm.

Municipal bond traders were set for a second wave of new issuance to sweep over the market on Thursday. Riding the crest of the supply wave will be the North Texas Tollway Authority System's $750 million bond sale, buoyed by two recent rating upgrades.

Charles Hallac, who conceived BlackRock’s investment management platform and founded its advisory business, has died. He was 50.

Travails of parent company RCS Capital have been "distracting" but haven't impeded expansion, says Douglas King, Cetera Advisor Networks' president and CEO.

The past few months have seen a bevy of mega moves, the result of months of planning, recruiters say. Here are the biggest summer recruits.

Retirees should take classes reserved only for seniors and consider taking online courses if going to school is difficult; Plus, what if clients just can't afford to fully retire?

Bennett and her firm claimed to be managing more than $2 billion in assets when the real number was no more than one-fifth of that amount, the SEC alleges.