Financial planning

"Smart beta" ETFs are attracting funds from both active managers and passive indexes.

Accountants may have some concerns about forming an alliance with you. Be sure that you can understand and address their fears.

High-net-worth clients increasingly find themselves having to support adult family members while Millennials consider how they can align their investments with their values.

On first Capitol Hill advocacy day, FPA advisors are meeting with policymakers to push for greater fiduciary oversight and regulation.

The Federal Housing Administration clamped down further on reverse mortgages, saying it will no longer insure a variant of the product featuring a fixed rate and a line of credit.

Dos and Don’ts with 401(k) Plans; Building Retirement Savings; Income Strategies

Paul Mahan is back in his old position at Commonwealth after a month with LPL Retirement Partners.

Nearly 2,000 advisors, exhibitors, and asset management industry leaders headed to Chicago for Morningstar's annual investment conference June 18-20. Here, attendees reveal the top takeaways for advisors.

Stock brokers who switch firms will be able to keep their bonuses to themselves for at least a few months longer.

Some efforts at innovation just don’t pay off. But if you learn from them, you can make future initiatives more successful.

American Realty Capital Properties' Nicholas Schorsch will step down as CEO in October and be replaced by President David Kay as part of governance changes at the largest single-tenant landlord.

'There's no doubt that this world has opened up and more companies are now open to dividends,' says Thomas Huber of T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund at the Morningstar Investment Conference.

With Europe still slowly muddling its way to recovery, investors looking for returns in developed nations should give Japan a second look, argue two experts.

Our signature top program managers rankings are based on a proprietary algorithm using multiple variables. Here we present the top 10 based solely on the number of advisors on their teams.

Taking on Emerging Markets these days is best on a country-by-country level.

Sharing of best practices across IBDs to become standard for RCS' new Cetera network, says Adam Antoniades.

It is time to rethink retirement planning. A few experts offer the latest thinking on portfolio allocations, long-term care coverage, annuities and more.

Issues ranged from possession of child pornography to assault and taking a test for a supervisor; 14 planners penalized, in total.

Participants at Morningstar panel discussion outline major challenges in fixed-income and equity markets. "Hard to come to work" if you are a portfolio manager.

'There are some really extraordinary companies in Russia, but you have to be willing to embrace the controversy,' says Oppenheimer's Justin Leverenz at a Morningstar conference panel.