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A senior Labor Department official says his team is amenable to tweaks in the proposed rules so long as the fiduciary relationship is formalized with the client.

How clients might benefit from putting a hold on certain retirement strategies; plus, tailoring retirement plans to small businesses and tips to reduce all that IRA paperwork.

Tax-savings tools for your clients. Plus, how clients can convert to Roth IRAs and take advantage of the benefits without a huge tax bill.

The most important investment a wealth management firm can make is in its people. To thrive over the long term, firms must be able to attract and land great talent.

With the addition of the new recruits, Faubourg Private Wealth Advisors now has seven former J.P. Morgan advisors.

The advisors managed a combined $278 million in client assets.

Carl Icahn criticized asset management firms such as BlackRock for selling ETFs that give an illusion of liquidity for “extremely illiquid, and extremely overpriced” securities such as high yield bonds.

Regulators say that as threats continue to mount, they are expecting more formal policies and procedures from the firms they examine.

Even as a first step for clients seeking information on advisors, BrokerCheck is under scrutiny by advocacy groups.

The multi-strategy hedge-fund manager with about $7 billion in assets is seeking to raise $500 million for its first private equity fund.