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On April 27, Walt Bettinger said Schwab's index offering currently has 10 buyers.

Advisors be forewarned: your small business clients are more likely to be audited next year. The IRS is beefing up its ranks of auditors and doing more audits.

The Baby Boomer retirement flood is the gift that keeps giving and financial advisors are seeing huge growth opportunities to counsel small business clients on exit planning strategies as they close in on their golden years.

Four successful women advisors focus on what they could have done better and the lessons they learned from their mistakes.

This week, IRA expert Ed Slott answers investors’ questions about selecting a beneficiary and distribution rules for inherited IRAs.

The lack of women on corporate boards and in executive suites in the United States is hampering profitability, and investors and investment advisors can do something about it, according to Joe Keefe, President and Chief Executive of Pax World Management and Pax World Funds.

On April 26, 2012, Prudential Retirement has four new plan sponsor clients: Clampitt Paper; the luxury travel agency Virtuoso; Fisher Auto Parts, and Trimac Transportation.

Women are so dedicated to nurturing clients, they often forget to take the time to think about where they are in their careers.

According to a Schwab study, 45% of independent advisors are bullish about the market in the six months. However, a second, first-time survey of 504 high-net-worth investors found that only 29% are bullish about the market.

LinkedIn is the hands-down preferred mode of social networking for advisors, because it offers plenty of resources to gather client leads and personal privacy.