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Investors are pouring a record amount of money into ETFs that focus on municipal debt even as the consensus on Wall Street calls for higher interest rates in coming months.

The firm agreed to pay $225,000 for failing to adequately supervise its registered representatives, one of whom allegedly bilked elderly clients of over $300,000.

The IRS is continuing its enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, and today announced the top ten identity theft prosecutions for fiscal year 2014.

Your affluent clients may think they can just write a check to cover college costs. They're probably wrong. Here are a few issues that parents (and grandparents) should consider.

Also, Raymond James added two $2.6 million producers advisors who last worked at RBC. However, Raymond James wasn’t the only winner. See these and all the latest advisor moves in our latest recruiting roundup.

Raymond James & Associates tapped a former Morgan Stanley exec and RIA co-founder as regional director.

Advisors Patti Brennan and Judy Rubin offered tips on communicating value to new clients.

Despite a push for tighter rules to curb loan and withdrawal leakage, experts say small loans from 401(K)s aren't a drain on savings; Plus why millennials need to start saving for retirement now.

Advisors must do a better job nurturing new women advisors and engaging female clients. Even so, AIG Advisor Group CEO Erica McGinnis has high hopes for women in the industry moving forward.

Ballentine's clients invest in the U.S. equities market via ETFs. When the market was near its bottom, Ballentine had them sell those funds and buy into "like kind" ETFs, which they then rode back up.