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With so many distractions in their lives, clients face an uphill battle to focus their attention on retirement planning. Here's how advisors can help.

Planners are facing another competitive attack. Previous threats made the profession stronger - will that happen this time?

UBS is facing more than $600 million in damage claims filed by Puerto Rico investors in closed-end bond funds, the bank said in its second quarter earnings report Tuesday.

The $400,000 Social Security question; Generating income in low-yield world; When conventional wisdom is good enough

Entrepreneurial advisors are leaving the wirehouses and constructing new business models the industry hasn't seen. But before joining these trailblazers, other advisors should think about what it is they want to change.

The industry talks a lot about transparency, but issues get tricky when you’re working with families, money and personal relationships.

The new "SendMyDocs" app helps clients who live far from their bank or credit union as well as the advisors trying to serve them.

After leaving LPL for NFP, Washington Wealth brings its breakaway advisor total to seven for the year thus far.

UBS AG said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating its dark pool since early 2012, the first time the Swiss bank has acknowledged the probe now in its third year.

Regulation is the biggest driver of change for mutual funds and money market funds, according to a new EY survey, and it may have consequences beyond higher costs. Heightened regulatory demands anticipated to fall on managers and their products means increased costs of doing business. For financial advisors, this may mean higher costs of products for their clients or, if costs become too high, potentially avoiding such products in favor of more passive investment methods. …