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Regions Insurance hired the owner and two associates of The Hanback Group, an independent insurance brokerage and human resources consulting firm, to lead the employee benefits practice in Nashville.

Commentary: Syndicated columnist David Sirota is on a mission to prevent public pension funds from investing in “alternative assets” such as private-equity and hedge funds.

With the launch of a new Institute for Sustainable Investing, the firm is looking to add $10 billion in client assets to its socially responsible investing platform.

A husband-and-wife planning firm and the CFP Board have traded jabs in court over whether the planners can seek damages in their lawsuit against the board.

The Treasury Department and the IRS have loosened the “use it or lose it” rule for flexible spending arrangements for health care, allowing participants in health benefit plans to carry over up to $500 from their FSA from year to year.

The agency issued its annual inflation adjustments for more than 40 tax provisions, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes for 2014.

Barclays Lawsuits Over K1 Fund Ponzi-Scheme Combined in Germany

Commentary: Initiatives

UniCredit Markets Structured Notes Tied to Carmignac Mutual Fund

Eight leading managers of money-market mutual funds urged the SEC to alter the way it defines retail funds in proposed new rules for the industry.

Call it the second wave of the mortgage-refinancing collapse. Prepayment penalty income is about to crash. Hard. Especially in New York.

At its most basic, relative strength is a ratio of stock or index price-to-market average or other indices.

Advisor Ryan Beal gave away most of his clients-and then built back up-to focus exclusively on cops and firefighters. Their personalities and senses of humor are similar to his own, plus they have good retirement packages. And he gets to ride on a fire truck to boot.

"We need to grow substantially," said Brent Smith, the new program manager at the Lititz, Pa., bank, who issued a mandate to double revenue over the next three to five years.

Umpqua Bank's plan to grow the private banking business to 10 times its size by 2018 may shift into high gear if its parent company's planned acquisition of Sterling Financial Corp. is approved.

Markets are pretty efficient in the long-term but can be wildly inefficient in the short-term. And the short-term is where advisors can provide value to clients.

As advisors look to protect clients' assets, and lock in steady income streams as well, they're changing the ingredients they use. They're adding new products to the mix with an eye-always-toward allaying the anxieties of their conservative clients.

Non-correlated investments used to entail high minimums and low liquidity — but now even mass-affluent clients can find diversification through alternative mutual funds.

Whether you want to keep working or enjoy a traditional retirement or anything in between, you have options-you just need to educate yourself on the possibilities.