Financial planning

No one can agree on what the Fed will do with interest rates. In the meantime, the banking industry's more-conservative players are devoting more resources toward hoarding low-cost deposits and purging shorter-term borrowings.

Your success as an advisor hinges on the relationships you build with clients. But before you can start, you must first appear to be someone with whom that is possible.

To justify their higher cost, advisors need to go beyond a commoditized service. If you're merely providing asset allocation or portfolio rebalancing, you're in the danger zone.

Genworth Financial jumped in early trading after losses at the long-term care unit were narrower than some analysts had expected.

Investors in their 20s and 30s are advised to reduce their stock allocations since they are likely to change jobs and subsequently cash out a part of their accounts.

Which banks are advisors moving to? Ten recently switched to BNY Mellon, Bremer Bank, Regions Bank, U.S. Bank and Bank of America's U.S. Trust.

Each of these strategies has been used by one or more elite advisors to generate substantial increases in their performance.

"[W]e made a carefully thought-through decision to remain a private company and to retain our independence," said Eric Clarke, CEO of Orion Advisor Services, one of NorthStar's subsidiaries.

IMCA has partnered with MIT to offer an online education program as one of the steps needed for CIMA certification.

Retirement savers lose up to 25% of their savings from "leakages," or pre-retirement withdrawals that erode the assets a client will have at retirement, according to a new report.

Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund attracted an estimated $85.6 million in net new money in January, the lowest amount since Pacific Investment Management’s former investment chief Bill Gross took over as manager in October.

John Carroll affiliates with hybrid RIA Independent Financial Partners and partners with retirement division Pensionmark.

No clarity on how regulators will decide to handle fiduciary standard proposed for broker-dealers, Schapiro said.

After your clients get their finances in order, which includes establishing an emergency fund account and maxing out their 401 (k) plans, then they can look to pay off their mortgage.

Following the success of her latest album and landing three Grammy nominations this year, the megastar's net worth is in the untold millions. With a Merrill Lynch advisor for a father, it begs the question: who is advising the pop star?

Less than half of U.S. workers last year had saved even as much as $10,000 for retirement, according to a study, but catching up is still a realistic goal.

Conrad Siegel Investment Advisors's parent company serves defined benefit and 401(K) plans. Executives at those client firms became the clients for the advisory spinoff.

Financial advisors often act as general managers for their clients, assembling a team of attorneys, trust companies and others to develop and maintain estate plans. Here are a few questions you should ask of your would-be teammates.

Trusts, a standard tool in the anti-estate tax arsenal, can range from simple to extremely complex. Here are a few options to work with.

Also, how your client may be skipping certain tax deductions, and how to find possible tax savings due to life changes.