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Every score fell as investors gave wealth management firms ugly grades in a time of slumping stocks and bonds and fears of a recession.

Jerry Schwartzman is a managing director and head of M&A tax services at Stout. He is a transactional attorney with a broad range of domestic, foreign, and cross-border tax due diligence and tax structuring experience for both private equity and corporate clients. He has also served as an expert witness in litigation and arbitration matters.

Joel Wukelic is a director in the M&A tax services practice of the transaction advisory group of Stout, advising private equity firms as well as public and private companies throughout the M&A transaction lifecycle. He is a transactional attorney and CPA with over nine years of experience providing domestic and cross-border tax due diligence and tax structuring services to both private equity and strategic clients.

James Lewis is a vice president in the M&A tax services practice of the transaction advisory group of Stout. He has over four years of experience providing domestic and cross-border tax due diligence and tax structuring services to both private equity and strategic clients.

Wealth managers are increasingly pledging to address diversity, equity and inclusion in their businesses.

Taxable bond exchange-traded funds have drawn floods of cash ever since two banks collapsed in March and deepened fears of an economic downturn.

Although the new leaders at Merrill could offer advisors new hopes, the firm could well suffer further attrition after Andy Sieg's defection last week to Citigroup.

The old-age insurance program is on course to go bust in the early 2030s, right when the last of the boomer generation will reach retirement age.

The SEC and DOJ accused a New Jersey-based broker of using insider knowledge to make more than $3.4 million from a scheme involving special purpose acquisition companies.

Some 70 million Americans born after 1996 stand to inherit huge sums of money in the coming decades. But they think about investments, saving and spending in ways often unfamiliar.