Financial planning

Advisors who are helping clients prepare themselves financially for retirement are only doing part of the job needed.

The settlement brings the total global fines for the scandal to about $9 billion, paid by a dozen firms. UBS paid $1.5 billion in 2012.

The firm's wealth management division also reported that pretax operating earnings rose 16% from a year ago.

Target date funds charge higher fees and don't perform well during a financial crisis; Plus, three great freebies for retirees.

"We're betting on financial advisors and personalized financial advice delivered by people," says RJFS President Scott Curtis.

Psychological experiments at the University of Georgia offer a pair of clear takeaways for advisors facing prospects.

After selling Cetera for a rich $1.15 billion, Donald Marron's Lightyear Capital picks up a $4.7 billion hybrid RIA.

Changes in both demographics and tax laws require a massive rethinking of estate planning strategies. Here are a few of the minefields that planners should avoid.

Three advisors left the wirehouse to join the independent brokerage network at Wells Fargo.

Striking a balance between the emerging and traditional realms of investing is where Motif Investing sees its niche, says its co-founder and CEO Hardeep Walia.

Future retirees whose non-Social Security income exceeds $80,000 would see benefit cuts under a proposal by the New Jersey governor; Plus, why Roth IRA tax tricks won't rescue an investor's retirement.

Which banks are advisors moving to? Eleven recently switched to Bank of the West, BNY Mellon, Northern Trust, U.S. Bank and Bank of America's U.S. Trust.

Buckingham, one of the largest firms in the Focus network, adds its eighth location with the New Jersey firm.

Amid flagging confidence in retirement security, advisors can change the conversation by focusing on outcomes and planning for sustainable income.

The move marks HighTower's fifth recruiting grab this year, totaling about $2 billion in client assets.

Russell Investments' new app joins the growing crowd of firms offering financial advisors digital tools to explain investment concepts to their clients.

Because the various fund sponsors report data inconsistently and often with delays, it's hard to get a clean comparison between rival offerings.

BlackRock agreed to pay $12 million to settle U.S. regulatory claims that it failed to disclose a conflict of interest of a top portfolio manager.

Entrepreneurs who are operating abroad need to take advantage of qualified retirement accounts for their business; Plus, why Social Security reform will never happen.

Behind the accounting errors that knocked $4 billion off American Realty Capital Properties' market value was a hidden scheme that generated more than $900 million in managers’ fees and bonuses, investors said in a lawsuit against the company.