Financial planning

When converting a regular IRA into a Roth IRA, it may be wise to use risky assets and be ready to undo the conversion if the assets move in the wrong direction.

Setting up small speculative accounts for adventurous clients may help to keep them on a prudent path with the rest of their portfolio.

An active tax indexing strategy enables clients with big holdings in their employers' stock to maintain the portfolio's risk positioning and reduce the tax pain.

When converting a regular IRA into a Roth IRA, it may be wise to use risky assets and be ready to undo the conversion if the assets move in the wrong direction.

Elliot Weissbluth tells HighTower conference attendees that he anticipates headwinds for firms that provide both products and advice and sees no future for small, unsophisticated advisors.

Putterman says his new consulting firm, 1812 Park, is aimed at developing long-term strategies for wealth management companies.

Leuthold Global ranges broadly, hoping to find themes that are in favor no matter what the markets throw its way.

A former Merrill Lynch advisor team has left the wirehouse to form Quadrant Private Wealth, a new partner firm of Focus Financial Partners, according to a spokesperson.

It's hard -- really hard -- to pick investments that outperform over time, Fama, the 2013 Nobel prize winner in economics, told advisors.

Two issues that advisors have been closely watching are near the top of the commission’s list; namely, efforts to expand oversight of RIAs and enacting stabilizing reforms for money market funds.

Narrow investment strategies and narrow fund categories tend to result in worse results for investors.

If you have clients with diminishing mental faculties, you need to know how to protect yourself.

A new withdrawal strategy from J.P. Morgan takes real-life spending habits into account and suggests clients could spend more at the beginning of retirement.

Narrow investment strategies and narrow fund categories tend to result in worse results for investors.

Allison Couch's newly created role focuses on sales and distribution strategies across one of the industry's largest broker-dealer networks.

The fund association maintains the industry is already heavily regulated, and in the event of failure a single fund can exit the market in an orderly process with little disruption, unlike banks.

'We were not as proactive as we should have been,' the CFP Board says, rolling out two initiatives aimed at resolving advisors' incorrect fee-only disclosures on its website.

Advisors who host an event to lure the well-heeled often end up being disappointed. Here are six steps to do it right.

You know that nervous feeling clients can get when they are worried that money is about to run out? It is not just mass-affluent clients; high-net-worth individuals experience that same nervousness. If you are in the investment business field, there are ways to deal with worried wealthy individuals.

Millennials represent $1.5 trillion in purchasing power and they want things the way they want them—if you want their business, you have to change, not them.