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There are a lot of well-honed methods — some better known than others — for lowering tax bills no matter what Congress does.

Securities regulators charged two Ameriprise Financial advisors and three others with insider-trading, saying they made $1.8 million in illicit profits based on confidential merger information one of the advisors learned through an Alcoholics Anonymous relationship.

Once a year, financial advisor Geri Eisenman Pell sits down with her team to analyze which clients are jiving most with her practice.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied up 217.97 points to 13,177.68 Tuesday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 added 56.22 points and 24.86 points, respectively.

Cantor Fitzgerald has named two managing directors of sales for its Prime Services Group. Both John Fiore and Marc Young will be responsible for business development and origination for hedge fund clients. In a joint statement, the two newcomers expressed their hope to be part of a growth story at Cantor Prime Services because “the mid-market hedge fund space continues to be underserved by investment firms.”

Kip Meadows is the founder and acting chairman of Nottingham Investment Administration, which services more than $25 billion in assets for mutual funds and asset managers.

Investment education company FiPath has hired Michael Turgeon as managing director of Advisor Services.

Goldman Sachs has reshuffled a number of senior positions in its equities division in response to recent executive departures.

Given uncertainty around soon-to-expire tax cuts, what can advisors do now? Here's an interactive slide show in which five planners discuss some top tax strategies.

Nearly one out of four pension plan participants invest solely in target-date funds, according to new research released from The Vanguard Group—a six-fold increase over the past five years.