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Advisors seeking better client communication tools are likely to have their wish come true because wealth management firms are expecting to increase their IT budgets by 5% to 10% this year.

New York Life Retirement Plan Services, a division of New York Life Investments, has launched a new client-satisfaction benchmarking tool for retirement plan advisors.

U.S. Pensions’ funded status dropped 12.7 percentage points over the full year 2011 to 72.4%, thanks to a sharp increase in liabilities that outpaced any rise in plan assets, according to BNY Mellon.

With Ladenburg Thalmann the latest firm to offer subsidized Financial Services Institute memberships to its advisors, FSI’s membership ranks have grown to more than 33,000 advisors.

U.S. Pensions’ funded status dropped 12.7 percentage points over the full year 2011 to 72.4%, thanks to a sharp increase in liabilities that outpaced any rise in plan assets, according to BNY Mellon.

Our legal expert discusses when you must report a claim against you even if you didn't do anything wrong.

Social media compliance is a subject that elicits a range of reactions from planners, from groans to cautious, curious questions. But Leia Farmer, the deputy chief compliance officer at Securities America, isn't afraid.

Fortigent, whose 90 advisory firm clients oversee more than $50 billion in high-net-worth assets, shores up LPL Financial’s growing share of high-net-worth business.

The multi-million dollar lawsuit that Trust Company of the West brought against former star portfolio manager Jeffrey Gundlach, who TCW fired in 2009 but who then formed his own, competing firm, DoubleLine Capital, has been settled out of court.

The multi-million dollar lawsuit that Trust Company of the West brought against former star portfolio manager Jeffrey Gundlach, who TCW fired in 2009 but who then formed his own, competing firm, DoubleLine Capital, was settled last Thursday out of court.