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Many Americans affected by the partial government shutdown are tapping their retirement savings and taking other financial options.

Michael (Mike) R. Rahmn is a member of Foley Gardere’s litigation practice group in Houston, where he focuses his practice on business and employment disputes.

By allowing disciplinary actions to be expunged from certificants’ records, the board is sabotaging its own efforts to raise industry standards.

An uptick in retirements dampened the firm’s efforts to expand its brokerage ranks.

Steve Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of ELAP Services, a leading healthcare solution for self-funded employers based in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He is a recognized expert in the insurance, employee benefits and risk management industry.

Royal Alliance must pay more than $2.5 million to one ex-client while dealing with charges against the firm and a former rep by William Galvin’s office.

A planner becomes a certified foster parent and grapples with loss when the child he has fostered is adopted by another family.

Jesse Coffee is a founder and wealth advisor with the Sanders Coffee Group, an independent firm affiliated with True Private Wealth Advisors. Follow him on Twitter @JesseCoffee

The pessimism is especially unusual given that the group’s asset flows haven’t moved opposite the market in more than a decade.

IIya Pupko is chief architect at Jitterbit.