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Advisor group Cohen Financial Management has joined Raymond James Financial from J.P. Morgan Securities, where the team generated annual revenues in excess of $4.2 million.

Investors looking to acquire dividend-oriented equity funds must navigate a number of portfolio options -- and a related set of challenges.

Advisors can help clients navigate the actuarial calculation of matching a savings and withdrawal plan with a projected life expectancy.

Using these two simple techniques, one firm acquired over 100 new clients through social media last year.

Distressed-bank rollups were all the rage among private-equity and hedge fund investors in the early days of the financial crisis. The results have been decidedly mixed, as the following examples illustrate.

In 2013, fees and commissions from annuity sales produced $3.43 billion in revenue, up 9% from 2012, according to the Michael White Bank Annuity Fee Income Report.

The rapidly emerging online distribution channel is attracting serious venture capital, while "do-it-yourself" firms with combined delivery mechanisms will be a "smart bet" going forward. See the list.

New York's top banking regulator is joining the U.S. Justice Department in investigating whether Credit Suisse Group helped U.S. clients evade taxes, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

Despite an uptick in savings rates, baby boomers are feeling more worried about their prospects for retiring securely, with a quarter of those polled saying they've postponed their retirement plans in the past year, a new study shows.

A trial attorney from the SEC said his bosses were too “tentative and fearful” to bring many Wall Street leaders to heel after the 2008 credit crisis, echoing the regulator’s outside critics.