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Fresh messages about the value of annuities have started to flow from a variety of sources.

Advisors should tell their clients to think as much about risk management as maximizing returns.

The wisdom of using exchange-traded funds to weather macroeconomic headwinds

The head of wealth management strategies for UBS discusses his 14 years in the securities business.

Uncertainty, action, volatility, optimism greet 2012.

Our annual recruiters roundtable: dissatisfaction in the ranks and the end of blind loyalty translates into advisors on the move.

Active and automatic ways to keep your new prospect pipeline flowing all the time.

Stocks wrapped up 2011 on a down note Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average shaved off 69.48 points to finish the year at 12,217.56. For the year, all the major indices finished basically where they began last January.

Nearly two years after a UBS wealth manager was found dead in her bathtub on New Year’s Eve, a New York court official has filed a wrongful death suit accusing the late Shele Danishefsky Covlin’s estranged husband, a former stock trader, of strangling his wife.

Three mutual funds that might do well next year all have one thing in common: they weren’t chosen because they were the absolute top performers in 2011. Instead, they were chosen on the basis of diversification, strong performance, level of risk and cost basis.