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As modern life increasingly moves online, wealthy clients' assets face a range of cyber threats and advisors are in a unique position to help protect them.

The wealth management needs of highly successful technology entrepreneurs and innovators are different from other high-net-worth clients. Some are counterintuitive. Here's what advisors need to know.

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. public pension-fund assets grew by 4.2 percent in the last three months of 2013, boosted by stock market gains, the Census Bureau reported. Assets of the 100 largest public-worker retirement plans climbed to $3.19 trillion by the end of December, up $129.9 billion from September, the bureau said yesterday. The gains pushed holdings to the highest level since the government began tracking the data in 1968. …

Former UBS banker Mark Zaino walked out of court a free man Thursday after a federal judge chose to impose no further sentence on him for his role in rigging municipal bond contracts.

An advisor team which managed more than $600 million in assets at Merrill Lynch has left the firm to join Morgan Stanley.

The constant monitoring is helping the bank keep tabs on customers' likes and dislikes — and stay on top of complaints.

With an estimated $2 trillion "in motion" due to divorce or widowhood among American women, a thorough understanding of such major transitional moments may help financial advisors protect and even expand their practices.

For investment advisors with a small pool of clients, the threat of a cyber attack that could compromise investors' personal identifying information is especially acute, says one IT expert.

The insurance needs of ultrawealthy clients differ from those of the average client and the insurance industry has developed special products to meet those needs.

Each branch is unique with different personalities so you need to "crack the code" for each location-the key is to make their lives easier.