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The influential organization of fee-only planners is seeking to boost its membership further and take a lead role in the fiduciary debate.

Beth Bafford is vice president, syndications and strategy, at Calvert Impact Capital.

After a longstanding relationship, the New York alternative investments firm buys a chunk of the Swiss bank.

Jeffrey S. Luechtefeld is a shareholder in the Tax Controversy and Litigation Section of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams, and Aughtry in Atlanta, Georgia. Luechtefeld's practice focuses on resolving tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, administratively or through litigation. He previously was a special trial attorney for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel as well as a regional leader of the tax controversy practice for a big four accounting firm. Luechtefeld can be reached at 404.658.5462 or jeff.luechtefeld@chamberlainlaw.com.

As Vice President, Decision Science and AI at RGA, Petr Vaclav leads data analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives for business units, clients, ventures, and acquisitions across RGA's Europe, Middle East, and Africa region.

An expert in data science, he specializes in digital distribution, bancassurance, predictive underwriting, and other topics and serves as a bridge between the reinsurer's Global Data and Analytics team, its internal and external clients, and partners.

Most studies showing "tax alpha" through tax-loss harvesting assume investors are already rich, taxed in the highest brackets and flush with short-term capital gains.

Credit Suisse Group is shifting resources in the pursuit of business from a broader range of rich clients, as the lender focuses more on wealth management amid cuts to its troubled investment bank. 

Goldman Sachs Group faces a June 5 trial in a long-simmering gender-bias class action alleging the bank discriminated against thousands of women in pay and promotion.

Eighty-seven percent of mentors and mentees feel empowered by those relationships and have developed greater confidence at work.

Find all of the figures from Financial Planning's latest annual study of brokerages whose financial advisors aren't employees of the firms.