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The Swiss bank added a sprinkle of new US advisors for the first time in years, amid record quarterly profits and plans for global job cuts.

Profits slumped last year and many investors are now voicing their displeasure with the compensation awarded to senior leaders. A nonbinding “say on pay” vote taken Tuesday passed narrowly, but Chairman Charles Noski indicated that the board will take the results into account when designing future pay packages.

The actively managed offering will be available as soon as this summer, according to sources familiar with the plans.

In releasing their annual snapshot, state securities agency officials pledged to provide clarity around the compliance headache for small practices.

If passed, the package would end the step-up in basis provision, which will mean significantly larger tax bills for wealthy estates.

The Internal Revenue Service is holding up millions of tax refunds for manual processing and its systems were unable to process many of the quarterly payments that needed to be sent by April 15.

Even those who haven’t had a pay cut are revisiting the decision, with 22% tweaking the date, most aiming for a later exit, research shows.

Younger workers are more prone to monetary concerns than their older counterparts, due to a lack of savings and other factors, a recent survey found.

Moves and news at Macquarie, Rockefeller, Vanguard, Orion, and elsewhere in the financial-advice industry this week.

Peggy Ho built the rival firm’s government relations team, and she’s joining the new firm at a pivotal time in wealth management regulation.

The legislation re-introduced in Congress could give more clients the option of seeking damages through the courts.

The TIFIN group owns 10 companies building software for individual aspects of the wealth and asset management industry.

After appointing the committee and starting a new conference series, co-chairs Fanci Worthington and Stephen Oliver are asking all advisors to get involved.

The six-person will focus on ultra-high-net-worth families and individuals in South Florida.

The Treasury secretary has previously said she would work with Congress on ways to ease the “disparate treatment” across taxpayers from the deduction limit.

The IRS and the Treasury Department are giving small businesses that received Paycheck Protection Program loans in the first round a way to deduct expenses they couldn’t claim last year.

The lineup of exclusively short-duration fixed-income products, taxable and municipal, still managed an overall gain.

The key is to think about what clients ultimately want to know, writes finance professor Derek Tharp.

The two lead advisors had each spent more than two decades with the wirehouse.

Axos Financial, which has $14.4 billion across business lines, will gain $23 billion in new assets from 200 RIAs.