Financial planning

A new study finds many Americans are risking their own retirement security and health to support family members — with Gen X workers most at risk.

With savings gaps, financial anxiety and plans to work longer, half of Gen X employees feel unprepared for retirement.

Firms are increasingly looking to provide high net worth clients with services stretching beyond basic wealth management. The offerings include everything from help with cybersecurity to taking out complicated loans.

The use of multiple entities as a means of shifting a high net worth client's yearly income could help rack up bigger breaks, with some caveats.

A number of variables including illiquidity and opaque valuations may cause advisors to think twice before recommending this alternative asset to clients.

The ultrarich lean into risk, time and opportunity to build legacies. It's a replicable formula.

Employees aren't saving enough for retirement or for the costs associated with healthcare and caregiving needs.

According to Schroders, many Americans are falling short of retirement goals, leaving opportunities for benefit leaders to bridge the gap.

Quinn's technology could open personalized financial planning to clients who long weren't on advisors' radar screens.

IRALOGIX looked at retirement preparedness across five key areas, finding that Americans were struggling with nearly all of them.