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Some of the independent B-Ds specialize in high-end clients with big accounts. See which firms reported the highest share of accounts topping $100,000 -- and what their total client assets are.

People who decide to retire early share common traits that others don't have, such as having a happy marriage; Plus, a better way to help your clients tap their retirement savings.

Some of the independent B-Ds specialize in high-end clients with big accounts. See which firms reported the highest share of accounts topping $100,000 -- and what their total client assets are.

Two advisors who oversaw $300 million in assets at UBS have left to join Merrill Lynch.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and other U.S. officials should push global regulators away from designating individual asset managers and investment funds systemically important, ICI said.

A team formerly with Lincoln Financial Advisors will join an LPL-affiliated hybrid RIA.

There's a cloud over the J.P. Morgan unit where pensions are managed: The SEC is well along in an investigation into conflicts of interest in the bank's wealth-management unit, whose products include individual retirement accounts.

The South Carolina bank has been shedding assets in recent months after suffering millions of dollars in losses in recent years. The bank ousted its management team last year due to poor financial performance and conflicts with investors.

Aside from shoestring budgets, the biggest problem for many community banks is that their marketing programs have gone stale, experts say. For too many, marketing remains bounded by three time-worn pillars: advertising, direct mail and public relations.

The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to change its policy on identity theft and provide victims with copies of the fraudulent tax returns that have been filed under their names by scammers.