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Investors of exchange-traded funds that buy U.S. government debt are signaling that economic-growth optimism is taking root.

From positive outlooks for ETFs to asset managers in Asia gaining a greater portion of pay from net sales, here's top news impacting mutual fund and ETF managers and providers.

Structure relationships that factor in a variety of possible outcomes, a case study counsels.

You don't need to be able to do everything - but you should know whom to call when your clients need extra help.

After publishing our third annual RIA Leaders list, Financial Planning dove into the numbers to identify which of the top 100 actually have the wealthiest clientele.

Financial advisors may not be well-versed in survival skills, but a partnership with a trusted local security firm or specialist can go a long way to setting clients' minds at ease.

As modern life increasingly moves online, wealthy clients' assets face a range of cyber threats and advisors are in a unique position to help protect them.

Financial advisors may not be well-versed in survival skills, but a partnership with a trusted local security firm or specialist can go a long way to setting clients' minds at ease.

As modern life increasingly moves online, wealthy clients' assets face a range of cyber threats and advisors are in a unique position to help protect them.

The wealth management needs of highly successful technology entrepreneurs and innovators are different from other high-net-worth clients. Some are counterintuitive. Here's what advisors need to know.

Here we take a fresh look at our Top 50 and Next 50 Bank Advisors and list the top 25 based solely on percentage increase in production on a year-over-year basis.

The wealth management needs of highly successful technology entrepreneurs and innovators are different from other high-net-worth clients. Some are counterintuitive. Here's what advisors need to know.

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. public pension-fund assets grew by 4.2 percent in the last three months of 2013, boosted by stock market gains, the Census Bureau reported. Assets of the 100 largest public-worker retirement plans climbed to $3.19 trillion by the end of December, up $129.9 billion from September, the bureau said yesterday. The gains pushed holdings to the highest level since the government began tracking the data in 1968. …

Former UBS banker Mark Zaino walked out of court a free man Thursday after a federal judge chose to impose no further sentence on him for his role in rigging municipal bond contracts.

An advisor team which managed more than $600 million in assets at Merrill Lynch has left the firm to join Morgan Stanley.

Revenue rises 15% but product sales jump even higher, as a shift in compensation model holds back short-term revenue, the company says.

With tactical managers for nearly everything, the hardest part is evaluating these offerings for clients because they all sound great in theory. Here are some ideas on how to approach the evaluation process.

The constant monitoring is helping the bank keep tabs on customers' likes and dislikes — and stay on top of complaints.

With an estimated $2 trillion "in motion" due to divorce or widowhood among American women, a thorough understanding of such major transitional moments may help financial advisors protect and even expand their practices.

Hundreds of bankers gathered in Honolulu earlier this month for the Independent Community Bankers of America conference, trying to reconcile their sense that the economy is back on track with their concerns about costly regulations and unfair competition. The following is an overview of the conflicting messages they shared and heard.