Portfolio

"We can shuffle women from one firm to the next all day long, but we're still going to be at that 15%," says Michelle Lynch, director of Raymond James' Network for Women Advisors.

One inevitable change caused by low-cost, online competition is how advisors will structure their compensation, said Brian Leitner, senior vice president of practice management at Mariner Wealth Advisors.

CSOP Asset Management lowered the fee on its first U.S. exchange-traded fund tracking Chinese stocks and plans to start two ETFs after an equity rout wiped out $5 trillion in market value.

But watch out for the pitfalls of this common end-of-year-practice.

Strategizing Wealth Transfers to Heirs to Lower Taxes

Help clients deploy their RMD funds to cover both expenses and taxes.

A close look at areas where the right action can lower your client's tax bill on investments. Plus: How clients can pay little or zero capital gains taxes, and tax tips for clients who are new parents.

Congress shouldn't wait for the disability trust fund to run dry before it addresses the insolvency, according to a group convened by the Bipartisan Policy Center; Plus, millennials are advised to not cash out their assets when they move employers.

The pretense that Republican opposition to the DoL's proposed fiduciary rule changes is being done in the name of investor protection is "galling," says The Consumer Federation of America, an advocacy group.

The Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate increase in almost a decade can’t come soon enough for ETF providers such as WisdomTree Investments.