Financial planning

Knowing what to do as an investor and actually doing it are very different things, and your clients are feeling that internal struggle.

Retirement savers need to review their asset allocations because many investments are becoming more correlated as the global economy increasingly becomes intertwined; Plus, why the gender gap haunts women even in retirement.

“If you continue to work the way you have been, you may not be in business in five years,” says United Capital CEO Joe Duran.

Good compliance management software means no more overlooked emails, or documents gathering dust in filing cabinets, says BasisCode Compliance CEO.

A recent tax law creates a permanent 100% tax exclusion on capital gains from C corporations.

Buybacks and dividends each have their benefits for clients. Plus: Five ways to make money off market volatility, and when to start growing Roth IRAs.

Credit Suisse lost advisors managing a combined $4.1 billion in assets to J.P. Morgan and William Blair. Meanwhile, a Wells Fargo team that had over $2 million in annual fees and commissions left the wirehouse for Raymond James.

We sifted through a stack of nominations and selected these eight bank advisors as up-and-comers in the industry.

Should advisors fear digital wealth management incarnations like Vanguard Personal Advisory Services?

Advisors dish on clients who tried to game the system a little too aggressively.

To attract and keep successful clients, advisors need to be transparent about fees. Here’s how one advisor navigates those touchy conversations.

Whether an advisor should steer clients into currency-hedged international funds is a very close call. Here’s how to make it.

Here’s how to assemble teams that meet their immediate objectives, but then go on to excel.

When a client moans about not having the hot stock of the moment in her portfolio, here's what to tell her.

A new law ends years of last-minute renewals of the right to make qualified charitable distributions from IRAs.

A FINRA panel ordered the wirehouse to pay a client $95,000 for losses relating to bonds issued by the island commonwealth. By contrast, UBS says it faces more than $1 billion in similar claims.

Despite a law signed in late 2015, advisors who master the arcane rules of Social Security stand to prosper.

When clients begin to decline, advisors should be cautious about family members who might exploit them.

Clients know that profits don’t always point up all the time. Don’t try and fool them.

Why one planner helps clients with everything from finding long-term care to community resources.