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Employers are squeezing their workers' retirement savings, holding back on both the amount and the timing of 401(k) matching funds and dragging out vesting schedules. Taken together, these measures are making it more difficult to save for old age.

There are plenty of reasons why small banks may be reluctant to amp up their social media presence. But the past week's bad weather illustrates how these platforms can provide areal value-add.

Investors may almost triple the amount of capital they put into hedge funds this year, boosting industry assets to a record, an annual survey by Deutsche Bank showed.

The world’s biggest bond dealers are showing almost no confidence in the best annual start for Treasuries since 2008.

Banks are preaching the importance of getting low-cost deposits on their books now, ahead of new Basel liquidity rules, and the impending rise of interest rates.

Former Wells Fargo Advisors with $215 AUM join Baird, a $300 million Morgan Stanley team goes independent and Raymond James recruits several advisors to its ranks. Here are some of the most recent advisor moves in the employee advisor channel

The Minnesota Society of CPAs recently conducted its annual CPA member survey about the most strange and unusual tax deductions proposed by clients. The responses included everything from pets and wedding rings to gifts not given.

Our IRA expert answers questions about the IRS's 6% penalty on excess IRA contributions and the five-year clock on Roth IRA fund transfers.

A deep Morningstar analysis finds stocks to be safer bets than even Treasury bills over the long haul.

Slowing traffic is forcing banks to train branch staff in the art of making proper referrals, while pushing advisors to be more proactive, say program managers.

Municipal mutual funds reported $82.1 million of net inflows in the week ended Feb. 12, bouncing back from a $227.3 million outflow the week before, Lipper FMI reported Thursday.

(Bloomberg) -- Fidelity Investments, the second- largest U.S. mutual fund company, reported a 13% increase in operating income last year as the rally in equities boosted assets.

For all their recommendations to buy emerging-market stocks, the world’s largest money-management firms haven’t convinced some investors that the worst start to a year since 2009 is over.

Eaton Vance Corp., the money manager known for its focus on tax-efficient investing, appointed Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive Edward J. Perkin as chief equity investment officer.

The proposal to let the U.S. Postal Service become a bank is a hard sell, but the idea has legs for political, legal and business reasons. Here are answers to the top questions about the provocative idea.

Municipal mutual funds reported $82.1 million of net inflows in the week ended Feb. 12, Lipper FMI said Thursday.

Don't ask when clients want to stop working, instead ask what they want to do next, says one practice management expert.

From wirehouse CFPs talking about not telling clients they weren't really fee-only to industry researchers discussing the opportunities for advisors with LGBT planning expertise, here are the most notable quotes from the past week's stories.

The board approved a rule proposal that would impose new limits on financial advisors' ability to remove information about customer disputes from BrokerCheck.

Hot on the heels of record revenues for 2013, LPL plans to repurchase nearly 2 million shares from one its largest shareholders.