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This tax-code authorized technique allows clients to remove a personal residence from their estate at a significantly reduced gift tax cost.

By paying more now, a young homeowner could be done with his mortgage a few years early. But would it be worth it?

The forced merger with rival UBS was "the best among bad solutions."

Exchange-traded funds focus on natural gas and technology did horribly last year, but they're still drawing in new money.

CEO Greg Fleming's team secured more than $600 million in capital that brings together two of North America's influential financial families.

Every score fell as investors gave wealth management firms ugly grades in a time of slumping stocks and bonds and fears of a recession.

Wealth managers are increasingly pledging to address diversity, equity and inclusion in their businesses.

Taxable bond exchange-traded funds have drawn floods of cash ever since two banks collapsed in March and deepened fears of an economic downturn.

Although the new leaders at Merrill could offer advisors new hopes, the firm could well suffer further attrition after Andy Sieg's defection last week to Citigroup.

The old-age insurance program is on course to go bust in the early 2030s, right when the last of the boomer generation will reach retirement age.