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Your clients may have heard conflicting advice — they must change their IRA beneficiaries, spend down their IRA as soon as possible, dismantle their trust, or immediately convert their traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, Sophia Duffy writes.

The bank is winding down the roughly $40 billion international segment of its wealth management business.

As the No. 1 IBD rolls out M&A services to advisors this quarter and reels in record recruits, Dan Arnold says the firm is experimenting.

The practice received a recommendation from a surprising source and wound up picking its suitor after only a three-month search.

New hires come at a moment of heightened competition for talent industrywide.

Recruiting and retention of talent looms large for Advisor Group after it rolled up three firms in the wake of a massive acquisition.

Scott Ford is the new president of the 1,400-employeee wealth management unit that caters to affluent clientele of the Minneapolis company.

The team caters to wealthy clients and athletes, and specializes in private placement life insurance.

The acquisition of another midsize wealth manager will boost the holding company above 2,500 reps with nearly $95 billion in AUA.

The new hires include industry veterans and they join a growing branch in Dallas.

Despite the credit-positive reading by one agency, the IBDs are competing against less leveraged rivals.

Experts have identified a dozen credits, deductions and more as worth particular attention this year.

Net interest income, the firm’s biggest source of revenue, sank 16% last year.

The nearly 10,000 advisors affiliated with the firm grow 2.5 times as fast as their peers at rival brokerages, CEO Jim Cracchiolo says.

The systems are expected to be updated by the end of April, following calls from financial advisors on social media to make a change.

The simplest method involves having one traditional IRA and one Roth IRA, making one annual non-deductible contribution to the traditional IRA, and converting it before any gains or interest accrues.

A team that has grown through acquisitions dropped the No. 1 IBD after the institution purchased another one for more than $600 million.

The new recruits build on the 43 advisors Janney added last year.

Three provisions in the far-reaching law “make it likely that annuities will become more prevalent in company plans,” one expert says.