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Millions of workers have multiple jobs. That means they might have multiple retirement plans. Here are the rules for situations in which a client can set up and/or contribute to more than one plan at a time.

Here’s what is underpinning the creation of a firm with more than 320 advisors and $200 billion in assets.

At the moment, there's no clear way to "turn over human intuition" to machine learning, but there are immediate ways to save advisors' time.

Wealth management transaction activity will reach a record level for the sixth straight year in 2018, according to one forecast.

Demand for advice is exceeding capacity as about 150,000 prospective clients have reached out to the firm this year alone, Ric Edelman says.

Advisors are craving mobile solutions, and vendors are looking to satisfy.

Andy Sieg, head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, will join the management team of the company, reporting directly to CEO Brian Moynihan.

The duo previously spent a decade and a half with Oppenheimer.

The rarely dinged firm joined peers grappling with two issues: mutual fund fees and supervision of advisors who've been sanctioned multiple times.

The regulator bills the move as the latest effort to bring transparency to the challenge of unpaid awards.