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MLPs deliver returns and may help lower payments to the IRS. Plus, the costs of age-related milestones and ETFs.

The large Los Angeles institution launched the program mid-April with one adviser and a program manager and is looking to add more advisers soon.

Former Edward Jones advisor says he left for the freedom to own and market his own eponymous firm as he wishes.

More than 60% of mass affluent clients don't know how much they are charged, according to a new study by consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

Clients holding municipal bonds are in a good position to wait it out, after policy makers left the target interest rate unchanged and signaled increases will be gradual, strategists said.

With competition to RIAs increasing, the financial services giant will promote the value of independent advice.

One approach enables clients retiring with large positions of highly appreciated company stock in their 401(k) accounts to save thousands on taxes.

One adviser at the Morningstar conference finds retirement assumptions being reconsidered.

Is it time to try for another target market? Or just become a generalist? Forsaking current branding and marketing should not be taken lightly.

Edmond Walters is seen as bringing deep fintech expertise to rebranded company.

Sanjay Valvani was one of four people accused of insider trading and reaping more than $32 million from trades in drug companies using secret tips, according to federal prosecutors.

Retirees are advised to compute how long their savings would last at specific spending rates to know how much wiggle room they have.

How investors' fear of stock market turmoil may be shaping the future of certain ETFs.

Stable investors tend to downplay periods of performance and periods of underperformance.

Missed compounding opportunities, steep taxes and penalties and the possibility of forced early retirement, that's why.

"If you're a financial services company and you're not thinking of yourself as a financial tech company, then you're probably in a declining business model," says Rob Foregger, co-founder of NextCapital.

Some wirehouse branch managers have made the transition to the independent channel, but doing so takes careful planning, experts say.

Bill McNabb declined to speculate how low fees may go at his firm, which has the majority of its assets in passive funds.

In contentious Senate testimony, White fended off accusations that the regulatory body has dragged its feet. Again, she did not offer a timeline for implementing a fiduciary rule from the SEC.

The new recruits are opening a new office for the independent firm.