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While advisors have embraced cheaper trades, the move may have long term effects on strategies for client portfolios.

With astute maneuvering, advisors can add money to a clients’ college-fund kitty without jeopardizing financial aid.

Don't neglect the FAFSA and other ideas to help families with annual incomes of more than $300,000.

Among the new recruits is an 11-person team.

More often than not, wirehouses were on the losing side of these moves.

This recently passed bill is groundbreaking retirement legislation and will substantially alter the landscape for employer-sponsored retirement plans and individual savers.

“Everything’s on the table for consideration,” the bank's chief financial officer told investors. “He’s certainly not beholden to decisions that we made previously.”

The additions came amid a revamping of the firm’s independent advisor compensation.

The new hires signed on with the firm’s employee broker-dealer.

With Portfolio Intelligent Income, the discount brokerage is shifting some of its focus toward clients ready to spend their investments.