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How to fire clients you don’t like working with, impose higher account minimums and make centers of influence work for you.

Despite positive performance from “risky asset markets,” the typical U.S. corporate pension plan saw its funding ratio drop by 1% thanks to the drowning effects of high rising liabilities, a new study claims. In a Friday analysis, UBS Global Asset ...

Three months after the regulatory reform bill ordered the OTS' elimination over the next year, efforts to bring the agency into the OCC fold have been plagued with bitterness, communication problems, unease on job placement and rampant conflicts.

I hadn't been at the lunch table more than 20 minutes. And my tablemate - the chief regulatory officer for a stock exchange based in Kansas - might as well have just said, "put a fork in it."

Financial planners and investment advisors are moving broadly and quickly to adopt the Windows 7 operating system for their personal computers as well as the Apple iPad for their personal use, according to preliminary results of the 2010 Software Survey released Sunday at the Financial Planning Association's annual conference by Financial Planning magazine and virtual office consultant Joel Bruckenstein.

Some parts of the fixed-income market are hard to track with a traditional ETF.

Auto enrollment, escalation and target-date features in 401(k) plans are effective in boosting savings substantially, especially for lower-income workers, according to a report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association.

Asset manager will continue to recruit more advisors in the Dallas area.

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has been selected to launch and manage a new advisor-sold 529 college savings program in Connecticut, the state’s treasurer announced Wednesday.

Mutual of Omaha is holding 401(k) sales seminars, or boot camps, for advisers to 401(k) plans over the next year. The first six cities where the seminars will be held are Lansing, Mich., Pittsburgh, Orlando, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Dallas. Following the seminars, participants will receive a year’s worth of educational e-newsletters, and access to webinars and tools.