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Wealth gap lasts into retirement years; Will federal retirement wipe out Social Security benefits; Never too young to start saving for retirement

Walk into any wealth management firm, and chances are there won't be any African-American advisors at all. What's causing the diversity gap - and how can the industry fix it?

The silence about planning’s race gap is most insidious.

Barry Milinovich was expelled for allegedly stealing $10,100 from a bank customer's savings account.

Without a quantum shift in savings habits, millennials are facing big trouble when they start approaching retirement.

People who benefited from exceptional efforts by planners include moderate-income workers hoping to become homeowners and college-bound students. See how advisors made a difference.

A new version of Oranj aims to help advisors be more strategic in the ways they run their businesses.

A Vanguard model aiming to forecast the next decade’s returns offers some useful takeaways.

M&A activity is up. But is there a more systematic way that advisors can take advantage of these deals?

In an exclusive interview, Tash Elwyn, president of Raymond James & Associates, explains why the firm is enjoying recruiting success and where its future growth will come from.

After working in a nuclear power station, David Fisher decided it was time for a change. His new calling? Financial advisor.

August has arrived and many advisors and their clients are most likely taking a much need summer vacation. But as On Wall Street found, there are some advisors who are neverly off duty no matter the season.

Some advisors are blending their personal and professional lives to boost their business.

Is there a better model for retirement planning? Michael Falk, partner with Focus Consulting Group, explains why advisors should shift their focus from stockpiling assets to covering clients' expenses.

A Roth conversion that increases reported income might also decrease health insurance premium tax credit and thus bumping up the cost of the conversion.

Real estate investing and retirees in the same sentence scares many financial advisors. But one, who teaches such strategies, gives them a green light if clients follow a few of his cautions.

Guaranteed pensions still exist for some lucky retirees; financial planners need to know how help those clients make the best pre- and post-retirement planning decisions to effectively manage the steady income.

The SEC charged an ex-UBS broker with defrauding elderly clients of $730,000, which she allegedly used for vacations, a country club membership, vehicles and clothes.

Raymond James has picked up a UBS advisor team that had annual fees and commissions of about $1.9 million.

The Fed is trying to change as little as possible as it crafts its strategy to exit from record stimulus. The trouble is financial markets have changed so much that the still-developing plan may prove costly and ultimately unworkable.