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These independent broker-dealers have the highest percentages of female representatives. What are they doing differently?

These firms have the highest percentage of female reps. What are they doing differently?

The Minneapolis-based bank has added three wealth management advisors and one senior trust officer to the Chicago office of the Private Client Reserve.

Commodities fell to the lowest level in more than five years on signs demand growth is weakening in China, the biggest consumer of energy and metals, and on speculation U.S. borrowing costs may rise next year.

The final IRS longevity annuity regulations create an important option for retirees with 401(k), 403(b), 457(b) or IRA accounts who are worried about outliving their assets. Here's what advisors should know about qualified longevity annuity contracts.

As the Federal Reserve winds down its third round of unprecedented stimulus, one thing has become increasingly clear in the bond market: the U.S. economy just isn’t going to grow enough to upend demand for Treasuries.

Retirement health costs, planning for the wild card; Here are 3 important things to think about if you're retiring soon; Clean up that cluttered portfolio

Even as the SEC decided last month to put alternative mutual funds under the regulatory microscope, the investments are in a growth period as asset managers who offer the products seek to market their advantages to advisors and investors.

In the past, most dividend payments have continued, and many increased, even when stock prices have fallen.

Morgan Stanley grabbed an advisor team managing $1.1 billion in assets. But the wirehouse isn't the only firm recruiting top talent. See these and all the latest hires, moves and promotions among wirehouse advisors.

If you want your entire team focused on bringing in new clients, you'll need to restructure your organization to make that happen.

With NATO and Russia at loggerheads over a civil war in Ukraine, Britain facing the possible secession of Scotland and the Euro sinking, it might seem odd to think about investing client assets in Europe. But think again, some experts say.

With domestic oil and gas production forecasts buoyed by fracking extracting technologies, many investors have begun to seek new ways to refine their asset portfolios so they bolster efforts to help the earth achieve sustainability.

Advisors need a global outlook to best serve their clients. International travel can help achieve such a vision meaningfully.

Americans over 50 are particularly worried about one major threat to their retirement plans and advisors must do more to help, a new survey finds.

Two days after Apple unveiled its attempt to advance mobile payments, CFPB Director Richard Cordray cited the burgeoning field as a key area of concern his agency needs to examine.

Supporters of a broader and more rigorously enforced fiduciary standard are rallying behind a set of best practices they would like to see advisors and brokers incorporate into their practices.

Social Security and unpaid student loans, what the feds won't tell you; Medicare is pricier in unhealthy states; How the financial crisis put up more barriers to a secure retirement

While Envestnet is a leader in turnkey platform services for advisors, observers say the company still faces a host of challenges and needs someone whom RIAs can relate to in the trenches.

Israel and Gaza. Russia and the Ukraine. When does smart money bet on the conflicts subsiding?