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This week, IRA expert Ed Slott answers questions about the tax implications of inherited IRAs.

Scott & Stringfellow named Bryan Cram president of its private client group. Cram he plans both internal and external expansion of the retail business.

On June 7, 2012, Denver-based Curian Capital, LLC added of four new executives to the product development and asset management teams.

On June 7, 2012, Novato, CA-based Hennessy Advisors, Inc. signed an agreement with FBR Fund Advisers, Inc. to buy the entire family of 10 FBR Funds.

They’re skeptical, cynical and probably way too dependent on mobile computing devices. But advisors who don’t make the effort now to target and cater to Generation X and Generation Y investors will pay a steep price in the next decade as their bread-and-butter Baby Boomer clients transition from wealth accumulators to wealth distributors.

Advisors who want to position themselves for growth should set their sights on the next generation of investors who are poised to inherit unprecedented wealth.

Elite RIAs have achieved near-equal compensation with top-earning wirehouse advisors, according to research from Sanctuary Wealth Advisors.

In testimony before members of a House committee on Wednesday, Richard Ketchum, the chairman and CEO of FINRA, offered an enthusiastic endorsement of a legislative proposal to establish a self-regulatory organization to oversee RIAs.

“It’s who, what, why, where, when and how much,” says Nick Niemann, an Omaha, Neb., attorney wo has worked with hundreds of financial planners and their entrepreneurial clients.

A majority of advisors surveyed are willing to recommend sustainable investments, formerly known as socially responsible investments, making the potential markets as big as $650 billion, according to a survey by the Calvert Foundation.