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Mobility would significantly improve customer interactions, 84% of those surveyed said, and 83% said the technology would significantly affect their business.

Are you steadfastly relying on the estimates provided by Social Security? Are you 59 years old and about to get married for the second time? There is a lot of misunderstanding about Social Security, but today's tips could help clients down the road.

In conjunction with America Saves Week, new website presents consumers with online resources to assess their retirement savings.

William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, today called out Charles Schwab & Co. for recently changing up its customer arbitration agreements by striking its investors’ ability to join class action lawsuits.

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has lured five advisors with $619 million in assets and about $2.9 million in production in its latest move in the hunt for advisory talent.

There's a shift afoot in advisor compensation.

When planner Gordon Bernhardt began focusing his practice on entrepreneurial clients about three years ago, he discovered all of them lacked one important asset: time.

Are your clients planning to use Social Security? If they’re not, it’s probably because they do not know enough about it. You should be the one to start this conversation.

The SEC plans to take a close look at potential conflicts of interest in the investment-advisor practices that its examiners oversee, and will ramp up scrutiny of the marketing and performance claims of federally registered advisors, according to the examination guidance the agency recently issued for the coming year.

For years, accountants have heard they should include financial services among their tax or accounting practice’s service offerings, but is that a realistic goal?