Portfolio

Planners their best tips for kick-starting the conversation started with prospective clients.

Planners share their best tips for kick-starting the conversation with prospective clients.

Advisors should reinforce habits that ensure ethical behavior to the point that they become second nature.

Plus, what investors can learn by reviewing previous years' tax filings and how to lower their payments to the IRS.

Ellsworth Private Wealth Management hooks up with Stratos Wealth Partners, citing the use of LPL's RIA and broker-dealer platform.

President Obama has proposed payroll taxes be reshuffled so the portion that pays for the disability fund would be increased by nine-tenths of a percentage point, but Republican lawmakers want changes to address Social Security's overall financial health.

IRA expert looks at potential pitfalls when converting an IRA to a Roth IRA and distributions are required.

Salient Partners, a $21.5 billion investment firm, plans to buy Forward Management to expand its liquid alternatives business, a fast-growing product that offers hedge fund-like strategies to individual investors.

The SEC barred an RIA from the industry after the firm was charged with misleading investors -- including falsely claiming that its fund was "SEC approved."

No one can agree on what the Fed will do with interest rates. In the meantime, the banking industry's more-conservative players are devoting more resources toward hoarding low-cost deposits and purging shorter-term borrowings.