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Going forward, investment advisors will no longer be able to include the value of an investor's home in a new $1 million minimum of investable assets now required to charge performance fees, according to the SEC, which is tightening its rule around fees.

This week, IRA expert Ed Slott fields questions about recharacterization provisions for Roth IRAs and making contributions in a spouse’s name.

What terms will you need to get familiar with as clearing of what can be considered exchange-traded swaps starts up? Here’s one answer, in a gallery of key acronyms.

DST Systems has designed a new program, Retirement Income Clearing Calculator, which will widely distribute retirement income products to sponsors and participants of defined contribution plans.

Seventeen muni groups are urging members of Congress to reject President Obama's proposal to place a 28% cap on the value of tax-exempt interest, warning it will hurt the market and that its retroactivity will reverse nearly 100 years of legislative history.

The combination of Baby Boomers heading into retirement and the arrival of Echo Boomers into savings programs is about to put financial advisors on the ride of their professional lives, according to the fourth-largest distributor of mutual funds in the United States.

DST Systems has designed a new program, Retirement Income Clearing Calculator (RICC), which will widely distribute retirement income products to sponsors and participants of defined contribution plans.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management is the latest firm to announce an upgrade to its online platform, eWealthManager.

T. Rowe Price has launched a new web-based retirement-planning tool that it says will help investors envision their lives in retirement.

To help busy advisors increase the frequency with which they contact clients, Cetera recently launched a new online marketing solution, Connect2Client. It’s designed to enable advisors to send out emails, paper postcards, newsletters with in-depth articles and a variety of messages, including birthday greetings, on a regular basis.