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Tax-savings tools for your clients. Plus, how clients can convert to Roth IRAs and take advantage of the benefits without a huge tax bill.

The most important investment a wealth management firm can make is in its people. To thrive over the long term, firms must be able to attract and land great talent.

Having both a pension and Social Security benefits can complicate tax and retirement planning. Here's how advisors are meeting the new challenges.

Regulators say that as threats continue to mount, they are expecting more formal policies and procedures from the firms they examine.

Even as a first step for clients seeking information on advisors, BrokerCheck is under scrutiny by advocacy groups.

Regulators have cracked down on LPL advisors in Massachusetts for using terms like "Retirement Specialist" and "Retirement Income Planning Specialist" -- while its planners use them elsewhere.

Two UBS advisors left the Swiss-owned wirehouse to rejoin Merrill Lynch.

How policy makers should address the growing state-run pension shortfall; plus, why the last check your client writes should bounce before they die and tips for clients to retire early without giving up what they love.

How planners can best advise clients wanting – or having – to work longer.

Head of industry group lobbying against the Labor Department's proposal is hopeful that the final regulation will address compliance objections and expand permissible transactions.