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Two scenarios plus a multi-step plan that enhances your ability to succeed in the competitive financial world.

The Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist for U.S. Trust discusses the Middle East and its impact on financial advisors.

One of the most interesting things to come out of this conversational thread about the regulators is the amount of fear advisors are expressing about speaking openly.

Robert M. Jaffe has been ordered to pay $1.1 million plus interest to Turbo Investors LLC

Putnam Investments announced Thursday that the Lifetime Income Analysis Tool it developed for 401(k) plans to show investors how much monthly income their savings will deliver, has motivated investors to increase their retirement savings rate by an average of 23%. Participants can use the tool to change their retirement date, portfolio mix and contribution rate to immediately see the impact.

There are more choices than ever, but are these new products largely unnecessary?

While healthcare costs are inevitably going to rise in the future, a 65-year-old couple retiring in 2011 will likely spend $230,000 on healthcare throughout their retirement, Fidelity estimates. This is an 8% decline from the $250,000 retiring couples in 2010 will need, due to recent changes in Medicare, Fidelity said.

Firm continues to roll out multi-asset class funds to meet demand for diversification.

A former municipal derivatives trading desk manager at Banc of America Securities LLC has pleaded guilty to one criminal count of engaging in a conspiracy to falsify bank records in connection with a scheme to rig bids and pay kickbacks for investment agreements and other financial contracts in the muni market.

Regulators and small bank advocates seem to be losing the psychological battle over the Dodd-Frank Act, despite recent efforts to calm bankers.

The past few years have been rewarding for bank employees. OK, maybe not the rescues, stagnant loan books, layoffs and litigation. But none of these disasters hurt pay at banks.

March is Women’s History Month, which seems like the perfect time to highlight leading women who put their money behind women's causes. With 61% of wealth now in the hands of women, and the majority of the world’s poor being women, it makes sense that wealthy women are giving powerfully. Some of the women on our list are big names, while others are rising stars.

Wealthy investors apparently unnerved by rising oil prices and the potential for higher interest rates and inflation now say they are much less confident about the stock market and the broader economy than they were just one month ago.

"Investors, while maintaining a core exposure to BRIC countries, should not close their eyes to other growth areas in the emerging world," Chris Laine, portfolio manager for active emerging market equities at State Street Global Advisors, said in the report. "Many of the smaller emerging and frontier economies have quietly been making investor-friendly reforms and deserve the attention of international investors."

A year into its existence, the size, knowledge and dedication of the SEC's special asset management enforcement unit is going to spell “trouble with a capital T’’ for fund managers of all stripes, according to experts at the final general session of the 2011 Investment Company Institute Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.

The investment professionals will work from Citi’s Philadelphia office, focusing on ultra high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments and private business owners.

MFS Investment Management has rolled out the MFS Global Multi-Asset and MFS Absolute Return funds in response to growing demand for greater portfolio diversification and lower volatility through multi-asset class funds.

PALM DESERT, Calif. -- At the start of 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission established a specialized unit within its Enforcement Division devoted to the looking for fraud and other perfidies in the $40 trillion field of asset management.

Wealthy investors apparently unnerved by rising oil prices and the potential for higher interest rates and inflation now say they are much less confident about the stock market and the broader economy than they were just one month ago.

A FINRA panel has put Robert M. Jaffe, an embattled former broker who worked with Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff, on the hook to pay $1.1 million in compensatory damages to Turbo Investors LLC.