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With women on pace to take control of more wealth in the coming years, female clients represent a major opportunity for financial advisors who make a concerted effort to engage with them. This could be bad news for advisors, both male and female, who don’t understand how to communicate with women clients. This was the theme at Fidelity Investments’ Growth Strategies Forum: Engaging Women Clients, conference on Wednesday.

The co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission said it’s unlikely the president and Congress will reach a deal by the end of this year to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

President Obama plans a private lunch tomorrow with his election opponent Mitt Romney, amid a face-off with congressional Republicans over taxes and spending and how to cut the deficit.

Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman called on the investment bank’s employees to pressure U.S. lawmakers into reaching an agreement that averts the so-called fiscal cliff.

Spectrem’s monthly measure of wealthy investors’ outlook took a dive in November due to year-end worries.

Long-time advisors Bill Duncan and Ziv Ohel joined Ameriprise in Deerfield, Ill.

Sure, investors still feel nervous, companies are hesitating to spend cash, and all attention is on fixed income and bond funds.

With gas prices flat, the IRS has announced a 1-cent increase in standard mileage rates for the business use of a vehicle. Thus, that rate will be 56.5 cents per mile for business miles driven in 2013, up from 55.5 cents a miles this year.

The Nationwide Funds Group is taking two tacks to drive growth of assets.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein is among the business leaders invited to the White House Wednesday as President Barack Obama seeks their support for his approach to addressing the fiscal cliff, according to two people familiar with the matter.