Financial planning

The time for advisors to discuss cognitive impairment is when clients are still healthy.

The time for advisors to discuss cognitive impairment is when clients are still healthy.

Assisting the elderly in resisting financial abusers is often challenging because the perpetrators may be the clients' own relatives.

Instruction should focus on the specific needs of the elderly, including how to spot and deal with cognitive decline or financial abuse.

Several of Steve Janachowski's clients are wealthy professionals with high incomes, but a lot of retirement uncertainty.

Saving on taxes during a liquidity event: Plus, how to get a double dose of tax-deferred savings, and when doing nothing is a client's best strategy.

Retirees who consider downsizing need to know that such a move doesn't always end up with savings; Plus, three steps to a safer retirement stash.

Enhanced programs will likely include financial planners. The initiative follows earlier legislation prompted by a Financial Planning investigation.

Advisors have an opportunity to play a pivotal role if they help clients crunch realistic numbers about their future financial obligations for elderly parents.

The generation gap may not be as wide when it comes to young recruits and their elder counterparts.

Focus on being the leader people want to follow and on having the right people in the right job, doing the right work.

Summit Financial, based in Westlake Village, Calif., is a primarily fee-based RIA offering clients investment management, insurance and retirement planning, says Triad, which offers advisory firms both a broker-dealer and a fee-based RIA multi-custodial platform.

New rules would bog down independent advisors in 'busywork' without producing enforcement gains, Brian Hamburger argues.

Savant's latest deal exemplifies a growing M&A trend: Larger RIAs buying smaller advisory firms, often in the same geographic region.

Agents tout that these products offer 8% guaranteed returns, but this 8% is not a yield but an income rider; Plus, how the Supreme Court just improved your clients' retirement.

While the wirehouse picked up a team producing $4 million, it also lost advisors who oversaw a combined $165 million in AUM to Steward Partners, an independent firm affiliated with Raymond James Financial Services.

Experts cite challenges in building and prosecuting cases involving elder financial abuse, suggesting advisors need policies and procedures to spot and report issues as they arise.

The wealth division has $700 million in assets under management, according to its latest Form ADV, and only 20 employees performing 'investment advisory functions.'

With a strategy to directly target institutional investors, Trizic, a digital wealth management technology startup, has attracted $3 million in seed funding.

Three bank breakaways join two former colleagues who started the independent firm Standard Investment Advisors last year.