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More than 20% of male baby boomers surveyed have postponed their retirement, 27% don’t know when they will retire, and 20% haven’t even saved for retirement at all.

On June 14, 2012, Teaneck, NJ-based Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, a financial services shop, today issued a press release about a new partnership with ING U.S. “to offer a comprehensive array of insurance business process services.”

“There is a tremendous generational shift we are starting to see already,” said Tom Nally, the new president of TD Ameritrade Institutional. “By the end of the decade, the next generation, will have over $28 trillion, up from $2 trillion. It is incredible.”

IRA expert Ed Slott explains the pros and cons of converting traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs for investors over 65 years of age.

The new annuity products, which are being offered by wealth managers in the firm’s Advisor Asset Program, come in response to a growing demand among investors for a more guaranteed form of tax-deferred retirement income.

On June 14, 2012, if you think alternative mutual funds are just a fad, then maybe you haven’t seen the latest offering from PIMCO.

Independence and technology are the leading factors for successful advisors, according to four advisors at TD Ameritrade Institutional’s Elite Summit, but some of the other factors were even more surprising.

“There are so many wonderful financial planners but so few of them do business financial planning,” says Karl Frank, a planner and founder of A&I Financial Services in Englewood, Colo., who specializes in entrepreneurial clients.

Martin Capital Management, LLC, has launched the Martin Focused Value Fund, which will bet undervalued shares of publicly traded U.S. companies.

Although they can’t see customers’ held-away investments, three quarters of financial advisors give advice about these assets anyway.