Financial planning

We reshuffled the deck from our Top 20 program Managers to present the best of the list based strictly on the productivity of their teams.

Using multiple accounts for a Roth IRA conversion gives clients a chance to separate winners and losers after the fact.

Securities America picks up a team with $120 million in client assets while a Focus partner reels in a wealth manager with $150 AUM. Here's a roundup of some of the most recent moves among independent financial advisors. View the list in slideshow format [here.] Securities America Joint Venture Snags Advisor Pair …

As the firm pursues growth, Raymond James executives are striving to maintain its intimate feel and regional firm culture.

For financial or other reasons, some clients who want to be in traditional hedge funds may not be suitable. Here's how to help them understand.

6 ways new tax law benefits sustainable retirement; Who has the best retirement plan; Avoid rollovers of IRA CDs

For financial or other reasons, some clients who want to be in traditional hedge funds may not be suitable. Here's how to help them understand.

Here are the most critical retirement issues facing clients and their advisors.

Do you have the best or worst 401(k) plan; 7 deadly sins of retirement; How to avert a Casey Kasem-type drama

The proposal prohibits brokers from arranging for the expungement of customer complaints as part of arbitration settlements.

Record quarterly profits of $122.7 million were boosted in part by the performance of the regional firm's private client group.

Increasingly, firms are seeking to move toward an ensemble model to improve flexibility and ease the burden on top advisors.

New rules will require institutional prime funds to allow NAV to float to market value.

After being ordered to stop calling his firm fee-only, Rick Kahler claims retribution and threatens a lawsuit.

A 401(k) for everyone; A disturbing look at the new retirement; To get the annuity right, start at the finish line

U.S. investors are used to treating money-market mutual funds as the equivalent of a checking account. That is about to change for the riskiest of the funds.

The U.S. Supreme Court has limited bankruptcy protection for inherited IRAs. Here's how you can continue to take care of clients' hard-earned legacies.

Why is it so hard to talk to clients about fees? Cathy Curtis, a San Francisco Bay Area planner and the founder of Curtis Financial Planning, explains how full disclosure can help bring the right clients through your door.

Index mutual fund assets are at new heights but the pressure to keep costs down deters new entrants, says a Lipper analyst..

When does a Roth IRA make sense; How early 401(k) withdrawals can affect your retirement security; Building a solid nest egg