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To help improve their online presence, Fidelity announced two new offerings for advisors.

While the 4% rule was created to set a minimum income floor, that doesn't mean spending can never be raised. Here's a better approach to withdrawal rates.

Sometimes it makes sense for clients to collect Social Security before full retirement age, even if it temporarily reduces benefits.

Clients should not be worried about the impact of plunging Chinese stock prices; Plus, six Social Security withdrawal strategies everyone should know.

The group is the latest to defect from the British bank's wealth operation before its impending sale to Stifel.

Thomas J. Buck, an ex-Merrill Lynch and RBC advisor who once oversaw $1.2B in client assets, consented to FINRA findings that he "willfully committed fraud."

One goal is to fully automate LPL's roughly 20 million pages it uses each year and eliminate the experience of working in an office over-filled with files.

Almost all robo advisors were founded in 2009 or later and they have never seen a meaningful downturn in the financial markets. This is a major issue.

Merrill has lured away other big producers from rival wirehouses in recent months.

While many public corporations are focused on engaging the threat of activist shareholders, asset managers still wrestle with reaching the larger percentage of fund shareholders who may pay scant attention to the prospectuses, proxies and reports that cost firms thousands of dollars to produce.

Bond dealers are standardizing methods for analyzing fixed-income exchange-traded funds as they seek to boost trading.

Two former employee advisors with $240M in AUM join independent firm.

The algorithms, which can speed up financial processes by making millions of calculations faster than any human ever could, are not infallible.

“The changes we announced today makes the [robo] cost issue go away,” LPL Chairman and CEO Mark Casady tells Financial Planning.

The role of bonds is to provide stability to a portfolio. But this only works when clients understand the true purpose behind their fixed income investments.

The firm pursued the advisor for a bonus clawback while the advisor in turn sought damages for alleged discrimination and breach of good faith.

A recruit from the banking channel at Wells Fargo moves to the regional's independent broker-dealer.

Bank wealth management businesses hauled in $36.35 billion in first-quarter revenue, the most they've ever generated in any first-quarter period since 2007. Here are the top 12 banks whose programs saw the sharpest growth.

Comparing its authority to that of sororities, country clubs and other trade organizations, the CFP Board convinced a federal judge to throw out planners' fee only lawsuit.

Bank wealth management businesses hauled in $36.35 billion in first-quarter revenue, the most in a first-quarter period since 2007. Here are the top 12 banks whose programs saw the sharpest growth.