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The former broker turned consultant to planners was in financial straits, his wife told police.

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A third-party examination system might be the most practical response to RIA oversight, but questions remain about how advisors will shoulder the costs.

ETFs made investing easier for retail clients, not just in stocks but in riskier areas they may not understand like currencies and bank loans.

The argument's underlying reasoning is simple: Vanguard is cheating state and federal tax authorities by charging its customers much less than other fund companies do.

Regulators remain worried about hard-to-sell assets held by high-yield bond funds as they probe whether the failure of the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund could be repeated, a top SEC official said.

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Davenport is based in Willis Towers Watson San Francisco office. He has a dual role as a senior practitioner in the company’s Research and Innovation Center and a senior consultant in the talent management and organization alignment group. He provides consulting services on manager effectiveness, rewards research, and human-capital strategy to clients in many industries, including technology, healthcare, consumer products, retail, financial services, and energy. He may be contacted at tom.davenport@towerswatson.com.

You might expect aging boomers to postpone their retirements after watching stocks tumble. Instead, nearly 403,000 American workers and their spouses were awarded their first Social Security checks in January, the highest monthly total in three years.

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